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Re: SQL and Regular expression

Hi Michael,

I believe that is expected. Excerpt from the V7R2 SQL Reference manual:

"The regular expression processing is performed using the International
Components for Unicode (ICU) regular expression API on Unicode data with
regular expression patterns that use the control characters listed
below."...

I ran a quick, similar test over 2 columns, one with CCSID 37 EBCDIC, and
one with CCSID 1208 UTF-8 enhanced ASCII, and got the same results as you.
The EBCDIC data behaved as if it was converted and then compared to the
regular expression.

Mike

date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:34:46 -0500
from: mprice@xxxxxxxxx
subject: SQL and Regular expression

I was running an SQL statement on a field in a physical file using
REGEXP_LIKE(Field1,'\xC1') expecting to find 'A' .

After this failed to return the desired results, I discovered that I have
to use the ASCII equivalent.

ie REGEXP_LIKE(Field1,'\x41')

Expected ?
or
Strange ?

Michael



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