Re: Any PL/SQL packages/functions with perl-type functions available?

From: Simon Taylor <simon_at_unisolve.com.au>
Date: 1997/07/23
Message-ID: <01bc9705$4ec9a600$026464c0@simon.iaccess.com.au>#1/1

Industrial strength regular expressions are kind of hard to do in PL/SQL without the ability to malloc memory.

Have you looked at Oraperl? I've not used it, but have some Oracle DBA associates who swear by it. I assume it allows you all sorts of hooks into Perls wonderful RE's...

Regards,

Simon Taylor
Unisolve Pty Ltd Melbourne, Australia

Dude <dudexx_at_us.oracles.coms> wrote in article <5r3hep$cd0$1_at_inet16.us.oracle.com>...
> Anyone know of freely available PL/SQL packages with perl-type functions
for
> pattern recognition and substitution? The built-in '%' and '.' just
isn't
> capable for what I need to do and I'd rather not code from scratch.
>
> Please reply to ---igum_at_us.oracle.com without the leading ---'s. Thanks.
>
Received on Wed Jul 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT