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Function to escape "like" strings?

See original GitHub issue

It would be nice to have something like this:

...orWhere('name', 'like', '%' + knex.escapeLike(incomingArgument))...

I tried to find something similar in the code but haven’t found one.

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Created 9 years ago
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Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

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killercupcommented, Mar 14, 2015

FYI, I’m currently using this in Postgres: whereRaw("name ILIKE '%' || ? || '%'", [param]);

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elhigucommented, Sep 15, 2020

Maybe it is not so common use case. Also this issue doesn’t describe what that escaping should exactly do. Remove % chars or something else? It is pretty opinionated functionality. If you like to implement or specify how it should work exactly, please open new feature request.

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