Android SQLiteDatabase query with LIKE

Question

I have 3 names, Allakhazam, Beatbox and Cunning in my NAMES Table.

public Cursor fetchNamesByConstraint(String filter) {

    mDb.query(true, DATABASE_NAMES_TABLE, new String[] { KEY_ROWID,
            KEY_NAME }, KEY_NAME + " LIKE ?",
            new String[] { filter }, null, null, null,
            null);

    return mCursor;
}

I call the function with "A" as the filter, but my cursor is returning a 0 count when it should at least return me a 1. Anyone can see what's wrong with the code?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9076561/android-sqlitedatabase-query-with-like

Answer 1

this statement will return all the records whose keyname equals string specified by string, if you use wild card, then you can get desired results. Like:

mDb.query(true, DATABASE_NAMES_TABLE, new String[] { KEY_ROWID,
            KEY_NAME }, KEY_NAME + " LIKE ?",
            new String[] { filter+"%" }, null, null, null,
            null);

Will Lists all the records starting with word in filter.

mDb.query(true, DATABASE_NAMES_TABLE, new String[] { KEY_ROWID,
            KEY_NAME }, KEY_NAME + " LIKE ?",
            new String[] {"%"+ filter+ "%" }, null, null, null,
            null);

Will Lists all the records containing word in filter.