Question

I’ve never been very good with regular expression – and I’m looking for someone to help building a simple regex for MYSQL that queries DB for the following pattern:

Could be anything here (YYYY)

Basically – I want to be able to query the DB to return all rows that match that pattern.

Sample Query:

SELECT title from myTable where title REGEX '$(YYYY)$'

Any advice or help on this?

UPDATE: The YYYY entry is a Year, like 2011 or 2010. Sorry for the confusion.

Answer 1

This should do the trick:

SELECT title from myTable where title REGEXP '[(][0-9]{4}[)]'

(By the way, it’s REGEXP with a P)