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Allow in-built replace function to use regular expressions [CORE2510] #2921

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firebird-automations opened this issue Jun 15, 2009 · 3 comments
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Allow in-built replace function to use regular expressions [CORE2510] #2921

firebird-automations opened this issue Jun 15, 2009 · 3 comments
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affect-version: 2.1.0 component: engine priority: minor type: improvement

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Submitted by: Ian Newby (ianewby)

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The inbuilt replace function introduced in fb 2 should be extended to allow regular expression evaluation and grouping, so it could
be used similar to the unix sed substitute command?
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Commented by: Claudio Valderrama C. (robocop)

Moving the item to the "engine" category because UDFs for us has a special meaning: external libraries.

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Modified by: Claudio Valderrama C. (robocop)

Component: Engine [ 10000 ]

Component: UDF [ 10002 ] =>

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Commented by: Marcio Reis (mreis1)

This is an old feature request but is it still considered?
REPLACE(my_string, my_regexp, 'value') would be a great additional feature to replace method

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