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 >