MySQL从列返回仅模式匹配

Question

I have a column with a product description. I want to do a search on this column with a regexp and only return the match from the regexp instead of the complete content of the column.

ie I have a description

This magnificent bead is high on detail

and

The bracelet has a magnetic closure

SELECT description FROM products WHERE description RLIKE"'magn.*\s"

This should return magnificent and magnetic

SELECT description FROM products WHERE description RLIKE"'magni.*\s"

This should return magnificent

But of course this current queries return the complete descriptions. Any pointers how I could do this. MYSQL 5.5

Answer 1

If you are using MySQL version 8.0, you can use regexp_substr() for this purpose. This function wasn't available in earlier versions.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/regexp.html#function_regexp-substr

UPDATE

Here's another crack at it which should be 5.5 friendly. Assumes that the supplied regex is at the start of the required match.

SELECT 
SUBSTRING_INDEX(
  SUBSTRING(`description`, LOCATE('magni', `description`)), ' ', 1) 
FROM table1 
WHERE `description` REGEXP 'magni';

And a working version 8.0 example for whoever upvoted my previous effort

SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR('Those magnificent men in their flying machines', '[[:space:]]magni[^ ].*[[:space:]]');

Answer 2

    You can use REGEXP in mySql to solve your problem like:

SELECT description FROM products WHERE description REGEXP 'magn.*'
    The above query will give u result magnificent and magnetic

SELECT description FROM products WHERE description REGEXP 'magni.*'
    The above query will give u result magnificent