Adriano,

> > If SUBSTRING could be used with regexp patterns one could take the
> > result from that function and put into the POSITION function and go on
> > from there. The nice twist of that implementation is that since
> > SUBSTRING returns a string I am also able to find out the length of
> > the match.
> This is SQL standard functionality. You may put feature request in the
> tracker for we don't miss it.
>

Thank you! And my apologies to you all for not doing proper research
before posting. I'll take your advice, go with it, and stop pestering
people in this list :)

Regards,

/Dany