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Extract Email from MySQL Users Table with Regex

Learn how to extract and validate email addresses from MySQL users table using REGEXP. SQL query examples with regex patterns.

The Regex Pattern

Regex pattern

^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$

Use this pattern with MySQL's REGEXP operator.

MySQL SQL Example

-- Query a users table in MySQL to extract rows where email column matches a valid email format using REGEXP operator
SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE your_column REGEXP '^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+\\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.\\-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$';

How This Works

Query a users table in MySQL to extract rows where email column matches a valid email format using REGEXP operator. The regex pattern is used with MySQL's REGEXP operator to filter rows at the database level.

Using regex directly in SQL is efficient for use cases like data extraction โ€” it avoids loading data into application memory just to filter it with a regex.

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