MySQL – REGEXP_REPLACE() Function Table of content Regular expressions in MySQL are used in search operations to not only filter records but also replace the pattern occurrences in a string. Consider a scenario where you noticed a spelling error among the huge sets of data present in a MySQL database. Now, you are supposed to […]

MySQL – REGEXP_INSTR() Function Table of content MySQL supports various types of pattern matching operations to retrieve filtered result-sets from huge database tables. But, pattern matching with regular expressions is a powerful way to perform a complex search. A regular expression is technically defined as a sequence of characters that represent a pattern in an […]

MySQL – REGEXP_LIKE() Function Table of content MySQL supports various types of pattern matching operations to retrieve filtered result-sets from huge database tables. But, pattern matching with regular expressions is a powerful way to perform a complex search. As we have seen in the previous chapter, the MySQL regexp_instr() function is used to return the […]