Stephen Froehlich <s(dot)froehlich(at)cablelabs(dot)com> writes:
> I was wondering if there was an elegant way to match a given string against a column of regexes within PostgreSQL? I'm only working with a few tens of lines, so I can read them all into R and examine them 1-by-1, but I thought I would ask.
Something like
... WHERE mystring ~ ANY (SELECT regex FROM regexes)
should do.
regards, tom lane