Regex matching beginning AND end strings

Question

This seems like it should be trivial, but I\'m not so good with regular expressions, and this doesn\'t seem to be easy to Google.

I need a regex that starts with the

Answer 1

Well, the simple regex is this:

/^dbo\..*_fn$/

It would be better, however, to use the string manipulation functionality of whatever programming language you're using to slice off the first four and the last three characters of the string and check whether they're what you want.