Re: [Echelog-devel] New type: regex

[Kamil T. <kt...@em...>]

On =DAt, 2003-02-18 at 21:27, Benoit DOLEZ wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> What about create a new data type: 'REGEX', that can be used in
> filter module?
>=20
> Benoit
>=20

Echelog types are designed primarily for serialization into messages.
This doesn't seem to be the case.

You can check the attribute type for varchar,... (by is_compatible(attr)
for example) and perform any special operation you'd like to (like
regmatch to a compiled regular expression).

More generally, maybe attributes could be enhanced to handle regexp
comparisons but it'd need a precisely defined behaviour for each type --
how would that look like?

Kamil