Question

So what i want to do is use a Regex to select only certain parts of data from a column

Example :

SELECT URL REGEXP ‘http://’ from websitelist –(website list is a list of URL’s)

If I run that against the table it returns 1 foreach row in which ‘htt://’ was found, what I want is to return the string that matches the regexp

Answer 1

The REGEXP operator performs a match and returns 0 or 1 based on whether the string matched the expression or not. It does not provide a way to extract the matched portion. I don’t think that there is any way to extract the matched portion.