title: Unwanted results with REGEXP, MySQL
body: <p>I am not good with REGEX, Can someone help me with optimizing my MySQL query, please?</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT activity
  FROM activity
  WHERE (LOWER( activity_name ) REGEXP '&gt;mit|mit,|edited mit')
  ORDER BY created_date DESC
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I replace <code>'&gt;mit|mit,|edited mit'</code> with <code>'mit|mit,|edited mit'</code>, It works so fast but It displays additional records which are not needed. I tried even <code>'/[&gt;]/mit|mit,|edited mit'</code>, unfortunately, I got wrong result.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>