Question

I require a regular expression that selects a column from table, if it starts with a specific character sequence specified by the user.

example if i type in A i should get

Apple
Apricot
Acorn

if i type in Ab

Abba
Abdomen

etc..

This is for a query done in mysql 5.1

Thanks,

Answer 1

Don’t use regex for this, use LIKE:

SELECT * from my_table WHERE name LIKE 'A%'