Hello

I am trying to extract from a column of a SQLITE-DB (containing text sentences) sentences that contain a string ($query). I normally use:

$results  = $dbh->selectall_arrayref("SELECT ID, sentence  FROM texts 
+WHERE sentence LIKE '%$query%'"

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which is working pretty good (every sentence containing $query somewhere is extracted). What I'd like to implement is a matching only for entire words. I thought the following would do the game (note the white spaces between and after $query):

$results  = $dbh->selectall_arrayref("SELECT ID, sentence  FROM texts 
+WHERE sentence LIKE ' %$query% '"
<\code>
<p>
Of course it doesn't work as I expected:
<code>
$query="tag"
sentence1= "Put tags around your paragraphs"
sentence2= "Put a tag around your paragraphs"
sentence3= "I am tagging your paragraphs"
sentence4= "There are many advantages"

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I get rid only of sentence4 (no white spaces left and right of "tag"

What I am doing wrong?"

In reply to DBD-SQLite Regexp by welle

Title:
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and:  <code> code here </code>
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