Re: Decline of Science: Computer Science and Databases

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <lgcdutra_at_terra.com.br>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:22:23 +0100
Message-ID: <arb7kf$gjmln$1@ID-148886.news.dfncis.de>

Tibor Karaszi wrote:

> "Paul Vernon" wrote in message
> news:aqosgq$pli$1_at_sp15at20.hursley.ibm.com...
>

>> Get re's into the SQL standard. It will happen, just don't know
>> when.

>
> The SIMILAR predicate in the current proposal for SQL200n uses
> regular expressions. -- Tibor Karaszi

SIMILAR? Ugh! Do committees love typing?

PostgreSQL's "~" for extended regular expressions and "~*" for case-insensitive EREs are just the thing.

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