Re: regular expression searches

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:07:08PM -0500, David Bitner wrote:
> I am trying to create a PL/PGSQL function that can parse a street address
> into the component parts (i.e. "200 W 54th Street" into num->200 dir->W
> street->54th type->ST).
>
> What I would like is to be able to use regular expressions within PL/PGSQL
> to accomplish this using mapping tables for the different components.

Perhaps PL/Perl or PL/Python would be more appropriate for this.

Cheers,
D
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