php MySQL and patterns

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  15 years ago

  by Myoshobi

  Myoshobi

  Saskatooon, Canada, Canada

  Joined 15 years ago

  alright so I'm using php and MySQL.
  In php I'm doing some pattern matching
  eregi($pattern,$message);
  

  
  so my pattern may look something like wa[.+]er or whatever.  
  

  
  The thing is I want to hold the list of patterns in my MySQL database.
  Anyone know what needs to be done to get $pattern being my $result['field'] to be seen as a pattern and not just a string.
  

  
  Or should it work and I must be coding stuff wrong.

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