On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 08:19:07 -0800 (PST) Kentucky Families <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a huge database so the option of using LIKE to bring up > everything beginning with the search term will result in too many > hits. I need a way to isolate these entries and search them on whole > words. If you have control over input format then you could store multiple values as say, ':Stott::Statt::Stutt:' and then search thus: SELECT * FROM people WHERE surname LIKE '%:statt:%' which will only match whole words. Better would be regular expressions capable of matching word boundaries, like perl's \b and \B patterns, but MySQL doesn't do that AFAIK. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
