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Using regular expressions will help you do some advanced querying and data manipulation. I've mostly used them in PostgreSQL. | Using regular expressions will help you do some advanced querying and data manipulation. I've mostly used them in PostgreSQL. | ||
- | I don't have any examples of code, but I have an uncompleted [[lds-scriptures.js|Javascript project]] where I use them a lot. | + | I don't have any examples of code, but I have an uncompleted [[lds-scriptures.js|Javascript project]] where I use them. |
Here's some code that is a regular expression that will do forward and reverse lookups for "Book Chapter Verse(s)" ranges. This is Javascript here, but the patterns themselves won't change. | Here's some code that is a regular expression that will do forward and reverse lookups for "Book Chapter Verse(s)" ranges. This is Javascript here, but the patterns themselves won't change. | ||
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+ | The context here is not related to the databases, but to examine a source of text data and find the strings that match. | ||
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