Well, in PHP, I solved that by assigning the RE to a variable.

Here's how it would look in perl, somewhat: 

my $sth=$dbh->prepare('SELECT * FROM foo WHERE something REGEXP ? ORDE
+R BY fate;');
my $re='(^|\;)' . $input . '(\;|$)';
$sth->execute($re);

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... in my experience, and as dws says, these regexps most likely will -not- be handled by MySQL. I tried a similar snippet using a regexp the MySQL understands, and it worked as expected. The concept of putting your RE into a string and then using that in $sth->execute() is valid.

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In reply to Re: DBI Placeholders and REGEXP by yakko
in thread DBI Placeholders and REGEXP by Masem

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