Does AQL support regular expressions in comparison operators?

Specifications AQL
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The possible support of regular expressions for the ‘matches’ AQL comparison operator was discussed in the 2019 Discourse Topic ‘AQL spec review for stabilization, formalization and cleanup’ (AQL spec review for stabilization, formalization and cleanup). However, no decision was taken in this topic.

This was 6 years ago. What is the current status?:

  • Are their plans to extend the AQL ‘matches’ comparison operator with support for regex?
  • Is support for regex already included in selected CDRs?
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I remember that discussion :slight_smile:

I raised the issue, and there were some implementations, for instance I think EHRBASE added LIKE, but spec-wise I don’t thing we made progress / agreement on that area.

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