Emulate REGEXP like behaviour in SQL

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I\'m working on a DB2 database, and as far as I can see re

Answer 1

You could accomplish this using SUBSTR, but I would recommend writing a Java stored procedure for this. It's fairly simple to put one together using the free IBM Data Studio tool.