Thank you very much. It works, as I'm sure you knew. But I have a further question. I've never seen the "~*" operator before, and searching for it in the docs and on Google did not return any results I could find. What does it mean? Thanks again! RobR -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general