RLIKE operator in MySQL

RLIKE : This operator in MySQL is used to performs a pattern match of a string expression against a pattern.

 Syntax :

RLIKE pattern

Parameters : This method accepts one parameter as mentioned in syntax.

• pattern -The pattern which we want to match against an expression. Various pattern and their usage are described below.

Example-1 : The following example finds the employees whose last name starts with the letter S.

CREATE TABLE Employee
(
Employee_id INT AUTO_INCREMENT,  
First_name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
Last_name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
Joining_Date DATE NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(Employee_id )
);

Inserting some data to the Employee table :

INSERT INTO Employee
(First_name ,Last_name , Joining_Date )
VALUES
('Sayantan', 'Majumdar', '2000-01-11'),
('Anushka', 'Samanta', '2002-11-10' ),
('Sayan', 'Sharma', '2005-06-11' ),
('Shayari', 'Das', '2008-01-21' ),
('Sayani', 'Jain', '2008-02-01' ),
('Tapan', 'Samanta', '2010-01-11' ),
('Deepak', 'Sharma', '2014-12-01'  ),
('Ankana', 'Jana', '2018-08-17'),
('Shreya', 'Ghosh', '2020-09-10') ;

So, the Employee Table is as follows.

select * from Employee ;

Output :

Now, we are going to check those employees whose last name starts with 'S'.

SELECT * FROM Employee   
WHERE Last_name RLIKE '^S' ;

Output :

Example-2 : The following example finds the employees whose first name ends with the letter 'i'.

SELECT * FROM Employee   
WHERE First_name RLIKE 'i$' ;

Output :