Re: REGEXP and word boundary match

2004-06-27 Thread Luke Majewski
Paul DuBois wrote: Why do you think this? That's not what the regex chapter in the MySQL manual says. \b works in Perl, but MySQL isn't Perl. I looked through the pattern matching section and didn't see what you linked below. The easiest way to find out the correct syntax is to look in the MySQ

REGEXP and word boundary match

2004-06-27 Thread Luke Majewski
Hi All, I have fields like: "Washable Velour Doll" in my database and I want to do a boundary match so that when people enter a search field like "Velour" I return all instances where the whole word exists. In other words, 'lour' would not work. I know that reg expressions have boundary matchi

Re: pattern matching - but in reverse

2004-06-20 Thread Luke Majewski
#x27;-1-2-' and I told mysql to give me all records that equaled the result of the replace function that replaced all '-' with nothing. So it matched 12 from the user input -1-2-. If that works for you, let me know. bob Luke Majewski wrote: Hi everyone, ok, so I know how to use

pattern matching - but in reverse

2004-06-20 Thread Luke Majewski
Hi everyone, ok, so I know how to use RLIKE to match regular expressions. However, let's say I have an isbn number of: 0-06-430022-6 saved in the database but someone wants to search for it by entering: 0064300226 or even 006-430-0226 So the search query needs to have its dashes removed