Re: regular expression substittion function? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Yes, SP's in Perl, Tcl, or PL/SQL-type languages.  Perl only works well in
> 7.1beta.

Very cool! We have to compile --with-perl, yes? Where may I find
documentation on how to use it?

> What do people think of this TODO item:
>
>     * Add sed-like regular expression search/replace capability
>
> Seems it would be nice for quick and dirty stuff rather than having to
> define a function.

Yeah, I think that's a nice idea.

Thanks,

David