Re: PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist
Date
Msg-id 20060117231441.GK17896@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
List pgsql-general
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:35:05AM -0500, Chris Browne wrote:
>    Note: I spent most of yesterday dealing with this very issue,
>    writing up a total of 31 eye-destroying regular expressions to
>    generate a pl/tcl function to parse cases that I had handy...  I
>    daresay that even with so many regexps, I was _still_ left with a
>    reasonably material number that would not be parsed...

I hope you can post that somewhere for others to use... surely it could
save a lot of people some time...

Or maybe not; I suspect most people just punt on phone numbers, or force
them to a very strict format.
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