Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rich Shepard
Subject Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list
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Msg-id 989b6fd-2979-8ac6-13b-3916d2e47de8@appl-ecosys.com
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In response to Re: Selecting all variations of job title in a list  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2025, David G. Johnston wrote:

> I was using this tool a while back when I was doing heavy regex work.
>
> https://www.regexbuddy.com/
>
> Keep in mind the native flavor of regex in PostgreSQL is TCL, not Perl.
>
> But I’d still say regexp is not the best solution here - unless you
> encapsulate the logic in a function.  I suspect you’ll want to use this
> logic in more than just a single query and with a literal regexp you have
> to rely on manual synchronization.  Note, you could combine the lookup
> table with regexes.  Though beware of ensure you don’t produce duplicate
> matches if you go that route.

David,

Thanks,

Rich



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