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Re: select all matches for a regular expression ?

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"Anton Melser" <melser.anton@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I need to be able to get all the matches for a particular regexp from
> a text field that I need to use in another query in a function. Is
> this possible with plpgsql? Do I have to install the perl language?

You need plperl (or pltcl; likely plpython would work too) --- the
built-in regex functions don't have any way to return more than the
first match.  There's a patch pending to provide more functionality
here for 8.3, but it won't help you today.

			regards, tom lane


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