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Regex in trigger not working as expected
Posted by: Jette Nielsen
Date: July 11, 2013 03:32AM

I have this piece of code inside a BEFORE UPDATE trigger:

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IF (NEW.col1 REGEXP '^[[:digit:]]{5}$') = 0 THEN
SET history = CONCAT(history,'\nCol1 value = (',NEW.col1,')');
END IF;
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Example value of "history":

Col1 value = (51011)

The strange thing is, that the regex is testing for a 5 digit value, and history should be set only if the value does NOT match, since I am testing if REGEXP returns 0.

col1 is a varchar(32).

I've spent a lot of time trying to figure this out. Gratefull for any suggestions.

Thanks :-)

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