MySQL SELECT LIKE or REGEXP to match multiple words in one record MySQL SELECT LIKE or REGEXP to match multiple words in one record mysql mysql

MySQL SELECT LIKE or REGEXP to match multiple words in one record


Well if you know the order of your words.. you can use:

SELECT `name` FROM `table` WHERE `name` REGEXP 'Stylus.+2100'

Also you can use:

SELECT `name` FROM `table` WHERE `name` LIKE '%Stylus%' AND `name` LIKE '%2100%'


I think that the best solution would be to use Regular expressions. It's cleanest and probably the most effective. Regular Expressions are supported in all commonly used DB engines.

In MySql there is RLIKE operator so your query would be something like:
SELECT * FROM buckets WHERE bucketname RLIKE 'Stylus|2100'
I'm not very strong in regexp so I hope the expression is ok.

Edit
The RegExp should rather be:

SELECT * FROM buckets WHERE bucketname RLIKE '(?=.*Stylus)(?=.*2100)'

More on MySql regexp support:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/regexp.html#operator_regexp


You can just replace each space with %

SELECT `name` FROM `table` WHERE `name` LIKE '%Stylus%2100%'