Question

I would like to query a single column (varchar):

sample datarows:

1) The fox jumps like a foo on my bar
2) Jumpers are not cool
3) Apple introduced iJump

When I enter a search criteria like… jump

I expect to get a resultset of: jumps, Jumpers, iJump
(So I dont want the complete row)

Currently I’m using MySQL (I’m open to suggestions as long it’s open source)

Answer 1

Since you’re using MySQL, I might suggest looking into LIB_MYSQLUDF_PREG.

This open source library will provide you with additional regex functionality, including the PREG_CAPTURE function, which extracts a regex match from a string.

Using this function, you could easily build a regex to return the match you’re looking for… Something like:

\b\w*jump\w*\b