Regular Expressions

[davidvilla]

Can we use regular expressions directly in a WHERE clause?

 

[mosfin]

Progress/ABL does not support Regular Expressions
AFAIK the only way you can use RegExp in Progress, is to use external library
for example, i use Linux/GNU shared library for POSIX.2 extended regular expressions,
using a 'wrapper' ABL function, but not inside WHERE clause

 

[tamhas]

Not quite, but look up BEGINS and MATCHES for simple cases and consider CONTAINS with a word index for more complex cases.