Memo To Self: MySQL REGEX

06.09.05 - 10:58pm
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MySQL uses POSIX 1003.2 style REGEX rules NOT Perl.

So using \b for word boundries is rather futile. Use [[:<:]]word[[:>:]] instead.

Good stuff to know for the future so that I can avoid spending 40min trying to figure out why an expression is failing.