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Responses Re: functions-matching.html: Tip says use "Per or Tcl ... ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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```
Tip
If you have pattern matching needs that go beyond this, consider writing a
user-defined function in Perl or Tcl.
```

I think Perl or Tcl are not the common choice today.

AFAIK Python is quite popular, and they have a good regex implementationd,
too.

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