Question

I have data like this in a field:

This is where a sentence ends.
This is a new sentence.

Say I want to get the first sentence.

SELECT * FROM `mytable` WHERE `file` REGEXP
'This is where a sentence ends.\n'

This returns no rows. I’ve also tried \\n, \r, \\r

How do you express a line break?

Answer 1

You do it with \n like you listed. Make sure there aren’t any spare spaces after the period as that could screw up the matching. Also, note that the . in your regex is being interpreted as any character – so you need to escape it like \. to get a literal period.