Interactive Region - set filter automatically

Question

Hi all,
I've a small problem ... I've a database link to an MSSQL Server. I need to query some data from there with an regular expression.
First I created a view in my Oracle database to fetch the data from MSSQL. In ApEx I'm using the view to show the data, but using REGEXP_LIKE in where condition is not working. I think it's the problem that MSSQL doesn't support this syntax.
But in interactive report I can create a filter with "matches regular expression" that is working.
Now I need the possibility to set this filter automatically when user opens the page with the report. I know I can link to interactive reports and set report parameters, but there is no 'match regular expression'. Is there another way to hack the interactive report and apply my filter?
The search expression is saved in database and depends on the product the user selected before.
So on page 1 I have a list of products like 'apple', 'peach' and 'banana' and on click there's a branch to page 2 with IR which needs to be filtered by regular expression.
i.e. 'apple' = '^({AC76BA86-7AD7-)[[:digit:]]{4}(-7B44-A7)[[:digit:]]{2}[0]{7}[[:digit:]](})$'
'peach' = '^({AC76BA86-7AD7-)[[:digit:]]{4}(-7B44-A8)[[:digit:]]{2}[0]{7}[[:digit:]](})$'
'banana' = '^({AC76BA86-7AD7-)[[:digit:]]{4}(-7B44-A9)[[:digit:]]{2}[0]{7}[[:digit:]](})$'
Has anybody any idea how to do this.
Thanks
chrissy

Answer 1

I've found so much about automatic search and filters ... but none of them used regular expressions ...
There are all these operators
■ EQ = Equals (this is the default)
■ LT = Less than
■ LTE = Less then or equal to
■ GT = Greater Than
■ GTE = Greater than or equal to
■ LIKE = SQL Like operator
■ N = Null
■ NN = Not Null
that can be add to a page link to filter IRs, why isn't there one for Regular Expressions ?????????
Please, please, please help ...
chrissy