Re: regular expression substittion function?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: regular expression substittion function?
Date: 2001-02-15 15:59:11
Message-ID: 2493.982252751@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> writes:
> Are there any plans to provide a regular expression substitution function,
> similar to translate but allowing more complex substitutions?

Not in Postgres itself. Either pltcl or plperl offers you far better
text-mashing facilities than we could provide as SQL functions, so I
don't really see the point in partially duplicating their functionality.

regards, tom lane

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