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: 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

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

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