MySQL Reference Manual for version 3.21.33. Go to the first , previous , next , last section, table of contents . Description of MySQL regular expression syntax.
Regular expressions are a powerful way of specifying complex searches.
MySQL uses regular Henry Spencers inplementation of regular expressions. MySQL uses the extended version. To get more exact information see Henry Spencers regex.7 manual that is included in the source distribution. See section Who has helped to make MySQL . . This is a simplistic reference that skips the details.