Re: Inside the Regex Engine

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: david(at)fetter(dot)org (David Fetter)
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inside the Regex Engine
Date: 2003-12-03 04:05:42
Message-ID: 26761.1070424342@sss.pgh.pa.us
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david(at)fetter(dot)org (David Fetter) writes:
> While PL/Perl is great, it's not available everywhere, and I'd like to
> be able to grab atoms from a regex match in, say, a SELECT. Is there
> some way to get access to them?

There's a three-parameter variant of substring() that allows extraction
of a portion of a regex match --- unfortunately it uses SQL99's
brain-dead notion of regex, which will not satisfy any Perl weenie :-(

I think it'd be worth our while to define some comparable functionality
that depends only on the POSIX regex engine ...

regards, tom lane

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