regular expressions in Perl and Oracle/SQL

From: Philippe Emeriau <Philippe.Emeriau_at_infineon.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:06:35 +0200
Message-ID: <37BC1D7B.3F854DDB@infineon.com>

Hi *,

I would like to know if there is somewhere in Perl a function that computes a regular expression and gives the result stored inside a string ?
Example : the regexp is "foo[1-6]", and I would like to store the result "foo1 foo2 foo3 foo4 foo5 foo6" in a variable. Be careful , the regexp can be very more powerful, with |, &&, [, (, ... supported operators !!!

I know that Perl computes the regular expression internally, but I would like to keep the result for me, and use it to translate it in an SQL query (that's why I need the long string, that can be cut in different substrings to create the SQL query)

Thanks in advance for any help or information Cheers

Philippe

Philippe EMERIAU
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