How to write a regex lookahead/lookbehind in mysql

Question

I\'m trying to do something like

SELECT * FROM table WHERE column REGEXP (abc)(?=def)

and I got the error

Got error \'rep         


        

Answer 1

MySQL REGEXP does not support lookaheads, but you can try to achieve the same logic using something like this:

WHERE column LIKE 'abc%' AND
      SUBSTRING(column, INSTR(column, 'abc') + 3, 3) <> 'def'