Re: patch adding new regexp functions

Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2007 17:11 schrieb David Fetter:
> > As for the regexp_matches() function, it seems to me that it returns
> > too much information at once.  What is the use case for getting all
> > of prematch, fullmatch, matches, and postmatch in one call?
>
> If not in one call, how would you get it?  Perl, for example, makes
> these available to any regex match in the form of variables it sets.

The question is, what is the use case?  If there is one in Perl, can this
proposed function API support it?

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Peter Eisentraut
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