Help needed with regualr, or regexs expressions.

Hi,
I trying to return specific codes from the database, and the part of the
code that works when actually in the database is like this;

=> select code from catalog where code ~ '^1[a-zA-Z]';

This works, returning ONLY those codes from the table that contain the
number 1 in the first position, and non others.

However.... when placed in the php3 script, like this, it errors out? What
am I doing wrong???/

(.... and code ~ '^$category[a-zA-Z]' order by code");

Thanks
Robert

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