At 3:15 PM -0700 7/14/01, xris wrote:
>I have a very simple query that used to work and then recently stopped. It
>goes something like:
>
>SELECT name FROM Items WHERE category RLIKE '^\* new cat \*';
>
>Now, I'm pretty familiar with how regex works, and I was pretty sure that
>when I put a \ in front of the * it would interpret it as a * instead of the
>"0 or more of previous" operator. But it's giving me the following error:
>
> Got error 'repetition-operator operand invalid' from regexp
>
>I really need to figure this out. I was told by someone to double-escape
>them (like" "^\\* new.."), but to me that would read as "0 or more \
>characters at the beginning of the string", not "a string that starts with
>the * character" which is what I need.
>
>Help?
Did you try the advice you were given?
What happened?
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
