My database table holds phone numbers that may contain characters other than digits (that's not a problem in itself).
I want to be able to apply a regular expression (to ignore all characters except digits) to the attribute 'phone' first and then for the ILIKE to compare
the result to $telephone. I can't find any way of applying the RE to phone.
My current query without the RE is as follows:
SELECT telephone FROM addresses WHERE id = user_id AND phone ILIKE '%".addslashes($telephone)."%'"
I want to do something like: AND phone([^[:digit:]]) ILIKE $telephone But this doesn't work. Any ideas?
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