On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:54:47PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > 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?
Perl makes the following variables available in any regex match, although it optimizes some cases for when they're not there: $1, ... $n (captured matches in parentheses) $` (pre-match) $' (post-match) $& (whole match) Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
