Re: Match against a column of regexes?

Tom Lane <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:26:57 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.db.postgresql.novice
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Stephen Froehlich <[email protected]> writes:
> I was wondering if there was an elegant way to match a given string against a column of regexes within PostgreSQL?  I'm only working with a few tens of lines, so I can read them all into R and examine them 1-by-1, but I thought I would ask.

Something like

	... WHERE mystring ~ ANY (SELECT regex FROM regexes)

should do.

			regards, tom lane