August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1472 pages
38h
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The SUBSTR, INSTR, LIKE, REPLACE, and COUNT functions have been enhanced and extended to support searches for Unix-like regular expressions. Regular expressions support a wide array of standardized controls and checks—for example, matching values a specific number of times, searches for punctuation characters, or searches for digits. You can use these new functions to perform advanced searches against strings. These functions, introduced in Oracle Database 10g, are named REGEXP_SUBSTR, REGEXP_INSTR, REGEXP_LIKE, REGEXP_REPLACE, and REGEXP_COUNT.
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Users who have previously used the Unix grep command ...
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