| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist |
| Date: | 2006-01-17 23:14:41 |
| Message-ID: | 20060117231441.GK17896@pervasive.com |
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:35:05AM -0500, Chris Browne wrote:
> Note: I spent most of yesterday dealing with this very issue,
> writing up a total of 31 eye-destroying regular expressions to
> generate a pl/tcl function to parse cases that I had handy... I
> daresay that even with so many regexps, I was _still_ left with a
> reasonably material number that would not be parsed...
I hope you can post that somewhere for others to use... surely it could
save a lot of people some time...
Or maybe not; I suspect most people just punt on phone numbers, or force
them to a very strict format.
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