Question

Beginning with a letter I know how to do:

WHERE mov_title REGEXP CONCAT('^(the )?', '$letter') 

And this method will work if I substitute $letter with any number, so if its set to 1, it will find all records that begin with 1, but I need it to work for any number 0-9. How could I modify the query?

Answer 1

WHERE mov_title REGEXP '^(the )?[0-9]' 

(Or set $letter to [0-9] if you want to keep using your existing WHERE clause.)