Re: Regular Expressions - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Regular Expressions
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Msg-id 3966.1541361307@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to RE: Regular Expressions  ("Mark Williams" <markwillimas@gmail.com>)
Responses RE: Regular Expressions  ("Mark Williams" <markwillimas@gmail.com>)
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"Mark Williams" <markwillimas@gmail.com> writes:
> Also, what would be the regular expression if you want to check whether all the words were in the field where you had
say10 words/phrases you wanted to check for? 

As David said, regular expressions aren't really designed to do that.
Personally I'd do the AND at the SQL level, ie

myfield ~* '\mtext1\M' AND myfield ~* '\mtext2\M' AND ...

You might also take a look at the full text search machinery, which
is probably better suited to this task.

            regards, tom lane


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