On 2022-12-10 10:41:41 +0000, Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
> On 2022-12-10 Eagna <eagna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This should be very (very) easy - I don't know what I'm missing -
> > I've done quite complex regular expressions before and I don't know
> > what I'm doing wrong. Brain burping this morning!
>
> You're missing that:
>
> * `regexp_replace` doesn't work like that, at all
No it doesn't. But the equivalent operation in some other languages and
tools does, so there is no reason that it couldn't do that (of course
neither is that a reason why it should).
> * your logic only works by accident for some languages (try to upcase
> a `ß` or a `ı`)
This is also true of upper() and lower() and SQL does provide those.
hp
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