Why do we need the GLOB clause in SQLite?

Question

I\'m an Android developer and recently came across the GLOB clause in SQLite. I cannot understand why we need GLOB given that LIKE is already in place.

Both clauses

Answer 1

Case sensitivity is useful by itself, because this works better with normal indexes.

Additionally, GLOB supports character classes:

Globbing rules:

* Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.

? Matches exactly one character.

[...] Matches one character from the enclosed list of characters.

[^...] Matches one character not in the enclosed list.

With the [...] and [^...] matching, a ] character can be included in the list by making it the first character after [ or ^. A range of characters can be specified using -. Example: [a-z] matches any single lower-case letter. To match a -, make it the last character in the list.