Introduction

With the release of Oracle Database 10g, Oracle has introduced regular expression support to the company’s flagship product. Regular expressions are used to describe patterns in text, and they are an invaluable aid when working with loosely formatted textual data.

This little booklet describes Oracle’s regular expression support in detail. Its goal is to enable you to take full advantage of the newly introduced regular expression features when querying and manipulating textual data.

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