Regular Expressions Functions

MariaDB includes a number of functions for dealing with regular expressions.

Title Description
Regular Expressions Overview Regular Expressions allow MariaDB to perform complex pattern matching on a string.
PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) for enhanced regular expressions.
NOT REGEXP Same as NOT (expr REGEXP pat).
REGEXP Performs pattern matching
REGEXP_INSTR Position of the first appearance of a regex
REGEXP_REPLACE Replaces all occurrences of a pattern
REGEXP_SUBSTR Returns the matching part of a string
RLIKE Synonym for REGEXP
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