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I think because the source-string being submitted for evaluation is in
ASCII hex instead of EBCDIC hex.

So, tell it '-' and it sees 2d not 60, and 2d is in the range 00 to 3f.

The manual should warn about it, but in a way it makes sense - I presume
they didn't write a regex processor from scratch but rather "ported" (if
that's the word) one they had from their non-EBCDIC products.

Question is: Can some setting change that behavior? I have no idea.

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 6:50 PM Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for pointing that out John! I guess I can't count :(

So they're both wrong! Why is REGEXP_INSTR finding a hyphen in the
range x'00' - x'3F' when a hyphen (in EBCDIC) is x'60'?



On 8/15/2021 5:56 PM, John Yeung wrote:
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 6:33 PM Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
values regexp_instr('abcdef-ghijk' || x'3f', '[\x00-\x3f]') returns 7,
which is what I expected.

values regexp_instr('- - - - - - - - - - -', '[\x00-\x3F]') returns 1,
which is NOT what I expected.
Why did you expect to find the hyphen in the first example but not in
the second?

John Y.

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