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CoolGuy
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Hey all,

Thought I'd share something I just found was available as of 8.2. Not sure if regex were a thing before this, but feel free to take a look! I'm stoked. Also, I see there are few others as well.


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Waz
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Awesome,

Now the important question.

Does it get translated to SQL ?


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Did you see that there is a simplified REPLACE function as well.


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CoolGuy
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Waz,

Haven't tried yet, but good question.

Also, yes! There's that one as well as CONCAT() and SPLIT() as well. Good stuff!


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I very nearly created a ranting post and question the other day because I was banging my head against the wall trying to get STRREP to work. Seems one needs to be a rocket scientist to use it sometimes. Does this new REPLACE function simplify that?


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CoolGuy
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If you look at the documentation you'll see that it does. Instead of 8 required parameters, you only need the 3 that really matter to the user, finally.


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MathematicalRob
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Hooray!!! Thanks for sharing!

Hope to see more of these updated functions in upcoming releases as well; they've been a long time coming. . .


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Francis Mariani
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You young'uns are easily pleased Razzer


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