Re: Difference between ‘*’ and ‘.*’

From: <popko.lukasz_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:06:26 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <b0b8b29b-3007-49f4-b3be-592f13f22bca@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>

joel garry napisaΕ‚(a):
> On Jul 8, 2:20οΏ½am, popko.luk..._at_gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anybody know if there is any difference between οΏ½*οΏ½ and οΏ½.*οΏ½
> > regular expressions in Oracle? Both seem to work similarly.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > lp
>
> Do they match nulls and newlines the same?
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/07/08/219228

In my opinion, yes. Both don't match nulls but match strings with newline. Received on Thu Jul 10 2008 - 10:06:26 CDT

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