really ...i can just plug the same string that works with a Py  
regexp ?    Well OK, its just a little function...itll probably have  
to raise an exception on oracle, ms-sql, (firebird?).   care to  
contribute a patch ?

On Jul 21, 2006, at 7:41 AM, Kevin Dangoor wrote:

> On 7/20/06, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> well, OK, but if they support regexps, is the syntax of the
>> underlying regexp the same also ?  else theres not much point in a
>> "generic" function for it.
>
> Postgres and MySQL both use the same package for regular expressions
> (though MySQL uses the REGEXP syntax for the operator). sqlite
> actually doesn't include regular expressions out of the box, but it's
> trivial to plug in a function that is used by the operator. I think
> that Python's re expressions plugged in would be mostly compatible but
> is a superset, but I haven't looked through the syntaxes to be sure.
> Odds are that if you're not using some of the more esoteric features
> you'd be fine.
>
> Kevin


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