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Support regular expressions in queries

See original GitHub issue

From twitter. Being able to support regular expressions in queries.

realm.where(Foo.class).equalTo("/.*?/").findAll()

Some things to consider:

Which dialect to support as it would have to be implemented in core
Performance (which would probably be quite bad for large data sets/complicated expressions).

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Created 8 years ago
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cmelchiorcommented, Jan 18, 2017

LIKE queries will be released as part of 2.3 ( https://github.com/realm/realm-java/pull/3992 ) . It will not be full Regular Expression support, but will cover the basic needs.

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s-shalabicommented, Jan 18, 2017

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