Re: Regular Expressions

I didn’t test it in a DB, sorry ’bout that.

I think others are on the right track here, using SQL for the AND functionality:

‘Select *
FROM [TABLE]
WHERE [regex search 1]
AND [regex search 2]
AND [regex search 3]
....’

Thanks,

-Andrew-

> On Nov 4, 2018, at 9:43 AM, Mark Williams <markwillimas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I tried the query, but it produced an error “invalid regular expression: quantifier operand invalid”.
>
> Also, what would be the regular expression if you want to check whether all the words were in the field where you had say 10 words/phrases you wanted to check for?
>
>
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> From: A. Sasaki <asasaki(at)gmail(dot)com>
> Sent: 04 November 2018 19:30
> To: Mark Williams <markwillimas(at)gmail(dot)com>
> Subject: Re: Regular Expressions
>
> ‘(*\mtext1\M*\mtext2\M)|(*\mtext2\M*\mtext1\M)’
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Andrew-
>
> On Nov 4, 2018, at 9:10 AM, Mark Williams <markwillimas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> If I wanted to search for whole words in a field I would use something like:
>
> Select * from mytable where myfield ~* ‘(\mtext1\M) | (\mtext2\M)’
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> This would find all instances of myfield containing either “text1” or “text2”.
>
> I can’t figure out how to search myfield for all instances which contain “text1” AND “text2”.
>
> In other words | is the OR operator. What is the AND operator. Tried + and whilst that executes, it doesn’t return matching fields.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
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