Re: Regular expressions?

From: Joe Kazimierczyk <joseph.kazimierczyk_at_bms.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 07:27:32 -0400
Message-ID: <3AF7D824.F50351D5@bms.com>

> > 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.

One idea would be to write an external procedure to allow oracle to call perl's regexp engine. Received on Tue May 08 2001 - 06:27:32 CDT