You can do regex comparisons in MySQL.
See
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Pattern_matching.html for more info, I'm
hopeless at regex!
Regards,
Mark.
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Hazel [
mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
My feeling was that this kind of thing is much better done inside the
query language, where it can be optimised. Does MySQL provide regular
expression matches? (I'm not an SQL guru.)
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