Might be useful:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/mysql.html
http://www.regular-expressions.info/oracle.html
I used the Oracle version like this:
func.regexp_replace(BillUnion.calldestination, '^\+([0-9]{2})
(0[2-578])?([0-9]*)$', '\\1\\3', 1).label('calldestination')
It is really slow though... :(
On Sep 17, 5:29 pm, "A.M." <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 17, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Michael Bayer wrote:
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> > On Sep 17, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Michael Bayer wrote:
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> >> On Sep 17, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Michael Hipp wrote:
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> >>> On 9/14/2010 2:23 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
> >>>> Is it possible to use a regexp in a like() clause? Or some other way to
> >>>> achieve
> >>>> something similar?
>
> >>> Can anyone suggest an approach to search a field with a regexp?
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> >> if you were using Postgresql, you could use
> >> somecolumn.op("~")(someregexp)
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> >>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-matching.htm...
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> >> cant speak for other platforms though you'd have to consult their
> >> documentation.
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> > PG also supports MATCH since I see we have some unit tests for that, i.e.
> > column.match(other). I'm not seeing offhand in PG's docs what it
> > interprets the "MATCH" operator as, i.e. is it a "~", "SIMILAR TO", not
> > sure.
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> > I guess the reasons I've never had interest in regexp matching in databases
> > are:
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> > 1. its always bad to search through tables without being able to use indexes
> > 2. if you're needing to dig into text, it suggests the atoms of that text
> > should be represented individually in their own column (i.e. normalize)
> > 3. no really, I'm doing flat out full text searching on documents and don't
> > want to reinvent. Well then I'd use a full blown text extension
> > (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/textsearch.html) or a separate
> > search engine.
>
> The SQLAlchemy "match" operator compiles to PostgreSQL full-text search (@@
> to_tsquery).
> test/dialect/test_postgresql.py
>
> Cheers,
> M
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