Re: Using REGEXP in searching

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Using REGEXP in searching

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Join Date: Feb 2008

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Re: Using REGEXP in searching

Mar 4th, 2008

Hi there :-)
Thank you for your time on this.

To handle spaces I also do replacements for that. This part is interesting
becourse it respond to both existing and NON existing spaces in database.

The hyphen "-" in the INPUT does only respond to existing hyphens in the database. Don't know if my thinking or coding is wrong, but the hyphen should be threathed like the space.

As long as the hyphen "-" exists in the INPUT string there is no fuzz.
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Input:
e-mailmarketing OR e-mail marketing

Output:
e-mailmarketing
e-mail marketing
emailmarketing
email marketing

Now, without the hyphen "-"
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Input
emailmarketing OR email marketing

Output:
emailmarketing
email marketing

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whatinput = "e-mailmarketing"

If InStr(whatinput,"-") <> 0 Then
whatinput = Replace(whatinput,"-","[\-|\.]?")
what = whatinput

If InStr(what," ") <> 0 Then
what = Replace(what," ","[\ ]?")
End If

Else
what = whatinput
End If

Database query

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REGEXP '[[:<:]]"&what&"'"

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