Re: regular expression substittion function?

From: David Wheeler <david(at)wheeler(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: regular expression substittion function?
Date: 2001-02-15 16:24:53
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0102150823240.16929-100000@theory
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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

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