Re: Pattern Matching on Columns

If I understand you right:
1. You have a column which contains blocks of text,
which may be multi-line.
2. You want to find out how many of those lines match
a given pattern?  Or you just want to extract those
lines?

A function using pl/perl looks like your best bet. 
Perl regular expressions could do what you want quite
easily.

--- Bhuvan A <bhuvansql@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Thu Jan 17 10:26:49 IST 2002
> ----------------------------
> 
> Hello,
> 
> How can i apply a delimiter, in pattern matching on
> database columns?
> 
> say, in my table i have a column of type 'text' and
> each of its value
> is MULTIPLE lines.
> 
> Now, i would like to search for a string in (say
> delimiter is '\n')
> that column and it should result in that many
> MATCHED LINES instead of
> that many matched columns.
> 
> How can i achieve this? Thankx in advance.
> 
> NOTE: Kindly apologize for any inconvenience.
> 
> 
>
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> Regards,
> Bhuvaneswar.
> 
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