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mySQL regex is a bit of a nightmare. It contains a lot of character classes that can be confusing if you don't use them often. I guess "escape syntax" is the wrong phrase.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/regexp.html




Ah. I was confused, because it uses Spencer's regex package, which is pretty standard for parsing and matching ERE.




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