| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | David Ford <david+cert(at)blue-labs(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com>, Parker Thompson <parkert(at)u(dot)washington(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: regular expression question |
| Date: | 2002-06-18 06:19:34 |
| Message-ID: | 20020618161934.B2446@svana.org |
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:48:10AM -0400, David Ford wrote:
> Yes, and honestly I rather prefer the POSIX syntax in most cases, but I
> do like some of the shorthands, i.e. < (or \<) is so much easier to type
> than "[[:<:]]", and the same for > v.s. "[[:>:]]". That's just silly.
> This by the way is an extension.
I must admit that perl has some nice regex extensions and it would be nice
if postgres could use them (via libpcre). Then you could use \b, \s, \w,
etc.
However, Having looked into the regex language proposed for Perl 6, I think
that's going way over the top. Perl 5 is fine.
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
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