I use REGEXP operator from ICU extension but the patch will not break my applications.
2012/11/5 Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> > Is anybody using the REGEXP operator that is included with the ICU > extension of SQLite? > > The reason I ask is that the current ICU REGEXP implementation is broken. > We are wanting to fix it. But the fix runs a serious risk of breaking any > legacy applications that depend on the old broken behavior. > > The brokenness is this: The ICU REGEXP operator assumes that every pattern > string begins with "^" and ends with "$". In other words, the pattern must > match the entire string. This is how LIKE and GLOB work. But we are > thinking that most users expect a REGEXP pattern to match any substring of > the input, unless the "^" prefix and/or "$" suffix are used. > > ICU experts: The fix we want to make is to use uregex_find() instead of > uregex_matches(). > > Will any legacy code break if we fix the ICU REGEXP operator to do what > programmers normally expect? > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Best regards, Alexey Pechnikov. http://pechnikov.tel/ _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
