How do I use regex in a SQLite query?

Question

I\'d like to use a regular expression in sqlite, but I don\'t know how.

My table has got a column with strings like this: \"3,12,13,14,19,28,32\" Now if I type \"whe

Answer 1

my solution in python with sqlite3:

   import sqlite3
   import re

   def match(expr, item):
        return re.match(expr, item) is not None

   conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
   conn.create_function("MATCHES", 2, match)
   cursor = conn.cursor()
   cursor.execute("SELECT MATCHES('^b', 'busy');")
   print cursor.fetchone()[0]

   cursor.close()
   conn.close()

if regex matches, the output would be 1, otherwise 0.