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Regular Expression Integrity Constraints in SQLite3

In a SQLite3 CREATE TABLE statement, can I use a regular expression to enforce a particular constraint? Specifically, I am trying to require that an inputted URL is valid. I know there are other ways ...
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How to use SUBSTRING using REGEXP in MySQL

I have the following situation. I have to substring regular expression from description using MySQL. Description: Lorem D9801 ipsum dolor sit amet Where D9801 is REGEXP. Every strong text ...
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RegEx bug in MongoDB

I run the following queries on a collection that have a lot of entries that contain [ and ]. db.test.find({word:/[\[]/}); // could not be run in console db.test.find({word:/\[/ }); ...
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Regular Expression Difficulty

I'm trying to extract 456 from the string :123:456: as follows: select regexp_substr(':123:456:', ':(\d+):', 1, 2, 'i', 1) from dual However, this query returns null. What am I doing wrong?
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Regular expression problem

SELECT FIRSTNAME,LASTNAME, EMAIL FROM CUSTOMERS WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EMAIL,'[A-Z0-9._%-]{1,10}@[a-z0-9._%-]{1,5}\.[net|com]','i'); I know this is not practical or make a ton of sense, but its a ...
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Pattern matching with LIKE, SIMILAR TO or regular expressions in PostgreSQL

I had to write a simple query where I go looking for people's name that start with a B or a D : SELECT s.name from spelers s WHERE s.name LIKE 'B%' or s.name like 'D%' order by 1 I was wondering ...
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sp_OACreate vbscript.regexp Class not registered

Imagine a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. I can create a 'vbscript.regexp' object using a vbscript (confirming that the DLL is registered). I cannot create a 'vbscript.regexp' object ...
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How do I use the POSIX character classes upper and lower to search text in MySQL?

I would like to search a body of text to find out when a specific word has been upper cased. MySQL has a REGEXP function with the POSIX character class [[:upper:]], but for the life of me I can't get ...
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Emulate REGEXP like behaviour in SQL

I posted the same on stackoverflow (please, let me know if I have to delete one). I'm working on a DB2 database and as far as I can see regexp is not supported (without additional libraries). So I ...
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How can I query names using regular expressions?

How could I search for a specific pattern in a column? For example, I like to get all user names that start with either letter A or B. (btw: this is tagged oracle, but it might be interesting in ...