Hi Ruslan, I'm trying to get a regex search by word boundary to work -- it should be simple, but it's not. This search for the word "the" fails: Select * from theTable where theField REGEX '\bthe\b' If I do this Select * from theTable where theField REGEX 'the' it works, but of course it finds any word with that substring in it. What is the correct syntax? Thanks. Jon Sonny Software