"Christopher Lyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to be able to search for specific text in a field and return the
> results for those rows. What is the best way to go about it? Do I use
> the regex stuff or match?
>
It depends.
You can use LIKE, REGEXP, full-text search for those purpose:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Pattern_matching.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Fulltext_Search.html
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