Re: regular expression question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: regular expression question
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Msg-id 25835.1024408885@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: regular expression question  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> I must admit that perl has some nice regex extensions and it would be nice
> if postgres could use them (via libpcre). Then you could use \b, \s, \w,
> etc.

If you want perl-style regexps, write yourself a one-liner plperl
function.  End of problem...

            regards, tom lane

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