Emulate REGEXP like behaviour in SQL

Question

I\'ve posted this question on the new dba.stackexchange.com (please, let me know if I have to delete one).

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

Answer 1

You can use Regular Expression in DB2 via xQuery:

db2 "with val as (
 select t.text
 from texts t
 where xmlcast(xmlquery('fn:matches(\$TEXT,''^[A-Za-z 0-9]*$'')') as integer) = 0
)
select * from val"

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.xml.doc/doc/xqrfnmat.html