Square brackets indicate a selection from among several characters, a hyphen is used to indicate a range of ch
aracters
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for example, a-c indicates the inclusive range from a to c.
The operator + indicates that at least one of the characters must appear at least once in the search expressio
n:
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mysql> SELECT 'cde' REGEXP '[a-c]+', 'efg' REGEXP '[a-c]+';
+-----------------------+-----------------------+
| 'cde' REGEXP '[a-c]+' | 'efg' REGEXP '[a-c]+' |
+-----------------------+-----------------------+
| 1 | 0 |
+-----------------------+-----------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
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