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Can you allow a regex match in a MySQL Select statement?
Yes, we can do regex match in a select statement −
select yourColumnName from yourTableName where yourColumnName regexp '^yourValue';
Let us first create a table −
mysql> create table DemoTable1892 ( FirstName varchar(20) ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Insert some records in the table using insert command −
mysql> insert into DemoTable1892 values('John'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1892 values('Adam'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1892 values('Jace'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1892 values('Johny'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1892 values('Johnson'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1892 values('Jack'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Display all records from the table using select statement −
mysql> select * from DemoTable1892;
This will produce the following output −
+-----------+ | FirstName | +-----------+ | John | | Adam | | Jace | | Johny | | Johnson | | Jack | +-----------+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Here is the query for a regex match in a MySQL select statement −
mysql> select FirstName from DemoTable1892 where FirstName regexp '^Jo';
This will produce the following output −
+-----------+ | FirstName | +-----------+ | John | | Johny | | Johnson | +-----------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
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