Use a wildcard with the "IN" operator in a SOQL query

Question

Essentially what I want to do is this:

SELECT Id, Email
FROM User
WHERE Email in ('first.last1%','first.last2%')

I am using this in a trigger and would like to come up with a query to match users based on the email prefix. Ideally, I like to avoid using a loop since I'm trying to avoid governor limits.

Anyone have a solution to this?

What are you trying to do exactly? Governor limits can be avoided by using proper techniques — EricSSH, Aug 01 '14 at 16:25

Phil Hawthorn · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-01T16:19:16.037

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what it looks like you're trying to do is a IN and LIKE. If you drop the wildcarding, your syntax is fine for IN. However, if you do need to do the Like you'll have to change approach.

If you are able to use bind variables, you can do it like this:

Set<String> emails = new Set<String>{'first.last1%','first.last2%'};
List<User> users = [SELECT Id, Email
FROM User
WHERE Email like :emails];

edited Aug 01 '14 at 16:19

answered Aug 01 '14 at 16:14

Phil Hawthorn

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Thanks! Worked perfectly. Didn't realize you could pass a Set of strings to the LIKE operator. – Matthew Mitchener Aug 01 '14 at 16:25
Me neither until I tried it the other day, must parse it out to OR's I guess – Phil Hawthorn Aug 01 '14 at 16:26
I was actually writing up an answer where it took a set and looped through and constructed a soql string using OR's when I saw this answer. Good to know, was unaware of this functionality. thanks. – Chris Duncombe Aug 01 '14 at 16:29
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Yeah, I was surprised when I found it worked - I wasn't expecting it to – Phil Hawthorn Aug 01 '14 at 16:30

Use a wildcard with the "IN" operator in a SOQL query

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