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Field Lookups - icontains


Example

Do a case insensitive seatch for all records that have the value "ref" in the lastname column:

mydata = Member.objects.filter(lastname__icontains='ref').values()
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Definition and Usage

The icontains lookup is used to get records that contains a specified value.

The icontains lookup is case insensitive.

For a case sensitive search, use the contains lookup.


SQL Equivalent

The SQL equivalent to the example above will be:

WHERE lastname LIKE '%ref%';

Syntax

All Field lookup keywords must be specified with the fieldname, followed by two(!) underscore characters __ and the keyword:

fieldname__icontains='value'