On 11/02/2019 22:51, blackfalconsoftware@... [firebird-support]
wrote:

> It may be more convenient to pull out data via a Regex expression in SQL
> code but it is rather redundant since all of the major development
> languages already support extensive Regex pattern matching capabilities...

20 years ago I'd just have rolled a UDF to give me the two values which
I could then use in the database. It looks like I still need to do that.
Or as you say cycle all the data through PHP ... which messes up simply
upgrading the databases via a local script.

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