LifeinAsia
msg:4188758 | 6:09 pm on Aug 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
You'll probably need to use regular expressions. I have very limited experience with regular expressions, so hopefully someone with more experience can suggest the exact format to try.
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fahad direct
msg:4188769 | 6:44 pm on Aug 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I am trying but unable if some can help me out.
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rocknbil
msg:4188855 | 9:14 pm on Aug 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
select 'abc-def' regexp '^[[:alnum:]]+-*[[:alnum:]]+$';
--> 1 (true)
select 'ABC-DEF' regexp '^[[:alnum:]]+-*[[:alnum:]]+$';
--> 1
select 'abcdef' regexp '^[[:alnum:]]+-*[[:alnum:]]+$';
--> 1
select '@#-def' regexp '^[[:alnum:]]+-*[[:alnum:]]+$';
--> 0 (false)
^ = string starts with
[[:alnum:]] = alphanumeric character class, case insensitive
+ = one or more of the preceding
* = zero or more of the preceding, making the - optional
$ end of string, preceded by a rinse/repeat of alnum
mySQL regexps [dev.mysql.com]
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fahad direct
msg:4188917 | 1:05 am on Aug 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for the helpful reply, could you please help me to make a select statement to search abc-def by using abcdef in where clause, please correct me if I am wrong:
select field from table where field like 'abcdef' regexp '^[[:alnum:]]+-*[[:alnum:]]+$';
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rocknbil
msg:4189353 | 4:39 pm on Aug 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I don't think you're going to be able to do that. The regexp must match the data, not the other way around, and you're asking to insert a character where there isn't one in the string, and it really can be anywhere. You could preprocess the input so it's like this, and do a long series of "or's":
where field = 'a-bcdef' or
field = 'ab-cdef' or
field = 'abc-def' ....
but that would be extremely unwieldy. You should probably re-think your front end, like
<p>Enter your product code:</p>
<p><label for="code-prefix">Prefix:</label>
<input type="text" name="code-prefix" id="code-prefix">
<label for="code-suffix">Suffix:</label>
<input type="text" name="code-suffix" id="code-suffix"></p>
Then you can do
$term = $_POST['code-prefix'] . '-' . $term = $_POST['code-sufffix'];
.... where field='$term';
This would be faster, more efficient, and less error prone anyway.
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whoisgregg
msg:4189398 | 6:08 pm on Aug 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
You could create an additional column that has all hyphens removed from it.
UPDATE `table` SET `search_column` = REPLACE(`sku`, '-', '');
Then just run your queries against `search_column` instead of against `sku`. Whenever someone does an UPDATE/INSERT just make sure you are populating your `search_column` value properly. :)
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rocknbil
msg:4189848 | 3:45 pm on Aug 20, 2010 (gmt 0) |
There you go . . . then if someone does the dash, you can either just preg_replace the dash on input or do . . . where dashfield='$val' or nondashfield='$val'.
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