Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: Relgular Expression
Author Helen Borrie
At 07:31 AM 5/03/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Gustavo Moda (Yahoo)" wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > FIREBIRD 1.5 work with Regular Expression?
> > If Yes, Does anyone know of links/refrences I use R.E. ?
> > If No, Exists UDF?
>
>What is a regular expression? Show us an example of what you want.

Set, I think he is talking about "regexes", or regular expressions, a
long-time lexing and parsing system on Unix for processing smart
search/replacement strings.

And I don't know of any UDF libraries that have implemented one, though the
freeUDFLib has lexer and parser units and some doc that suggests someone
had started to work on it...

/hb