Hi monks,

I am currently trying to use Perl and Postgresql together.
I would like to insert a regex containing a variable into the SQL statement but am unsure of how to do this. 


$sth_get_branch_list = $dbh->prepare(q(
                        SELECT branch FROM postgres_database WHERE tree = 'first_tree'
                        AND branch ~ /$root\.\d+/;
                        ));



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The basic aim of the script will be find sub branches of a root.
e.g. $root = stick, and what I want to find is all branches attached to $root, e.g. stick.1, stick.2, stick.300 etc...

I basically can't get the regex to work at all, I don't think it seems to work like normal Perl regexes, but I am not sure. I have tried a whole multitude of syntaxes.

All help greatly appreciated!
Cheers
Chris

In reply to Perl and PostgreSQL regex by chrishowe

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