What are the different wildcard characters that can be used with MySQL RLIKE operator?

The use of wildcards with RLIKE operators can save a lot of effort when we write a query that looks for some pattern (regular expression) in character string. The wildcards used with RLIKE are:

• ^ − It signifies BEGINING of the string. In other words when we use this wildcard with RLIKE operator then it will find the pattern that begins with the particular string written after ^ wildcard

Example

 mysql> Select Id, Name from Student WHERE Name RLIKE '^H';
 +------+---------+
 | id   | Name    |
 +------+---------+
 | 15   | Harshit |
 +------+---------+
 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

•  $ − It signifies END of the string. In other words when we use this wildcard with RLIKE operator then it will find the pattern that ends with the particular string written after $ wildcard.

Example

mysql> Select Id, Name from Student WHERE Name RLIKE 'v$';
+------+--------+
| Id   | Name   |
+------+--------+
| 1    | Gaurav |
| 2    | Aarav  |
| 20   | Gaurav |
+------+--------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

•  | −It means OR. In other words when we use this wildcard with RLIKE operator then it will find the string which will have either substring written with | wildcard.

Example

mysql> Select Id, Name from Student WHERE Name RLIKE 'Gaurav|raj';
+------+---------+
| Id   | Name    |
+------+---------+
| 1    | Gaurav  |
| 20   | Gaurav  |
| 21   | Yashraj |
+------+---------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)