Angela, Monday, March 04, 2002, 1:25:44 PM, you wrote: AH> I've a question concerning negations of regular expressions - e.g. I AH> want the sentence "this is nice" to match, while the sentence "this is AH> not nice" should not match. AH> I only found possibilities for the negation of single characters on the AH> MySQL-site, but what about whole words?!
What about NOT LIKE statement? For example: SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE text1 LIKE 'this is nice' AND NOT LIKE 'this is not nice'; You can see info about pattern matching at: http://www.mysql.com/doc/P/a/Pattern_matching.html AH> Angela -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/ This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php