title: find records starting with special characters using REGEXP in MYSQL
body: <p>Ok, so i am wanting to fetch results that start with a number and i have this regexp for finding only numerical entries</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT * FROM dbname WHERE subject REGEXP '^[0-9]'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but what if i want it to find numerical and all special character entries, how would i do that?</p>
  
  <p>So for instance if a subject was ":subject" or ".subject" or "*subject" etc it would find them as well as "1subject" or "2subject" and so on...
  Basically anything starting with something other than an aplhabetical character.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>