REGEXP_LIKE

Checks whether a text pattern matches a regular expression string. Returns 0 if it doesn’t match, or 1 if it matches. This is a RE2 regular expression.

Syntax

REGEXP_LIKE(<expression>, '<pattern>'[,'<flag>[...]'])

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Supported input types
<expression>	The text searched for a match using the RE2 pattern.	TEXT
<pattern>	An RE2 regular expression pattern used to search for a match in the <expression>.	RE2 regular expression
<flag>	Optional. Flags allow additional controls over the regular’s expression matching behavior. If using multiple flags, you can include them in the same single-quote block without any separator character.	Firebolt supports the following RE2 flags to override default matching behavior. With - in front you can disable the flag. * i - Specifies case-insensitive matching. * m - Specifies multi-line mode. In this mode, ^ and $ characters in the regex match the beginning and end of line. * s - (Enabled per default) Specifies that the . metacharacter in regex matches the newline character in addition to any character in . * U - Specifies non-greedy mode. In this mode, the meaning of the metacharacters * and + in regex <pattern> are swapped with *? and +?, respectively. See the examples using flags below for the difference in how results are returned.

Return Type

BOOLEAN

Example

SELECT
    REGEXP_LIKE('123','[a-z]');

Returns: f

SELECT
    REGEXP_LIKE('123','\\d+');

Returns: t

Example using flags

The i flag causes the regular expression to be case-insensitive. Without this flag, this query would return 0 as no match is found.

SELECT
	REGEXP_LIKE('ABC', '[a-z]', 'i');

Returns: t