OWA_PATTERN is likely available to you, you are correct that it doesn't have the power of perl, but hey it's there. It isn't nearly as fast or as powerful as REGEXP_LIKE but it may do you. Niall On 3/13/07, abhishek jain <mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, Yes i know but there are two problems: 1. I am using an earlier version 2. How to make the regex capable for this, i can make in PERL but that great support i think is not available in oracle. Thanks, Abhishek On 3/13/07, Ghassan Salem <salem.ghassan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you're on 10g, there is the regexp functions that handle regular expression manipulation, have a look at them > > rgds > > > > > On 3/13/07, abhishek jain <mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi Friends, > > I am having a database with varchar2(255) columns named title, extra_info1,extra_info2,extra_info3 . > > I want to search all these columns with a search string given to me via a form ,I am using PERL, the string will be like > > > > +abhishek jain -abcd "this should be exact" > > As you can see the word/words prefixed with + should be there somewhere in the above columns in database ,with - should not be there and within "" they should be exact phrase. > > I want a sol. for this, > > Pl. help me how to make a search queruy will it be in regex or simople like and not like , i will be having about 1 lac records in the database. > > I have adequate exp with mysql but not with Oracle , pl. help i need to implement this on Oracle. > > Thanks, > > Abhishek jain > >
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