I still find this to be an interested feature to add, as its very useful in string date manipulation. On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Roberto Cornacchia < roberto.cornacchia@gmail.com> wrote:
I found this thread from October 2015 where Sjoerd concludes that back references replacement is not implemented in the MonetDB wrapper: https://www.monetdb.org/pipermail/users-list/2015-October/008492.html
Probably that is still the case?
On 20 April 2016 at 16:35, Roberto Cornacchia < roberto.cornacchia@gmail.com> wrote:
After declaring a wrapper for pcre.replace:
sql>create function pcre_replace(s string, pattern string, repl string, flags string) returns string external name pcre."replace"; operation successful (6.187ms)
I cannot get replacements with references to captures work (but the code in pcre.c seems to support it):
sql>select pcre_replace('Apple Pear', '^([a-zA-Z]+)\\s*([a-zA-Z]+)$', '\\1 \\2', ''); +---------------------------+ | pcre_replace_single_value | +===========================+ | \1 \2 | +---------------------------+ 1 tuple (0.309ms)
The pattern is matched, but the back references are replaced literally. Am I not getting the syntax correct? From http://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcresyntax.html I see I could use any of \1, \g1, \g{1] for back references, but none seem to work.
Roberto
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