Re: Regular expressions?

From: Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 3 May 2001 07:10:12 -0500
Message-ID: <uzocu3a92.fsf@primix.com>

On Wed, 02 May 2001, ultramafic1_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> As it is now, I'm using PERL with DBI to do my queries and
> doing my regular expression matching in perl.

I would stick with Perl. Its regexp mechanisms are much more powerful than you will get with any DB. I guess you might look for using likes when possible so that you can have the DB's horsepower bring back as small a subset for Perl as possible though.

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Received on Thu May 03 2001 - 07:10:12 CDT