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Re: proposal: unescape_text function

Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>

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From: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Asif Rehman <asifr.rehman@gmail.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-12-02T16:32:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 12/02/20 09:55, Chapman Flack wrote:
> In Perl, there is a useful extension to regexp substitution where
> you specify the replacement not as a string or even a string with &
> and \1 \2 ... magic, but as essentially a lambda that is passed the
> match and returns a computed replacement. That makes conversions of
> the sort discussed here generally trivial to implement.

Python, I should have added, allows that also. Java too, since release 9.

Regards,
-Chap

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