Can you allow a regex match in a MySQL Select statement?

Question

Ok, so generally, when searching for a substring in a table, you can search for something similar using wildcards; ie `'%abc%' will return anything that contains that substring ('abc').

However, if I'm looking for a specific format (perhaps "abc123") can I use a regex match to search for the additional string data? Eg:

cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM [tbl] WHERE [name] LIKE @Param;";

Regex r = "\d*";
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@Param", "abc" + r);

This would then check all of your strings, and depending on the regex, it would compare the strings:

• 'abc123' - Match
• 'abcd123' - No match

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Post note: I'm not really looking so much into the syntax of the regex right now, I'm more interested to know whether or not this kind of process is possible .

Answer 1

MySQL supports pattern matching operation based on regular expressions and the REGEXP operator.

SELECT name FROM person_tbl WHERE name REGEXP '^st';

You can have a look on the MySQL SELECT LIKE or REGEXP