RegEx like in SQL WHERE

Question

Hello!
I want to search in internal tables lines like I do this in where expression of sql, but thought the instrumentality of RegEx.
For example, internal table have 2 lines:
Implementations and running times
implementation language
I want to find like in SQL such string 'implrun*'
How can I do that in RegEx?

Answer 1

Try this way
data: p_regex(80)  TYPE c VALUE 'impl(.+)run(.+)'.
data: regex         type ref to cl_abap_regex,
      matcher       type ref to cl_abap_matcher,
      ls_result     type match_result,
      lt_result     type match_result_tab.
condense p_regex.
    create object regex
      exporting
        pattern     = p_regex
        ignore_case = ''.
* For REGEX match
    matcher = cl_abap_matcher=>create(
                   pattern     = p_regex
                   ignore_case = ' '
                   table       = i_temp ). " i_temp is your internal table contains records
lt_result = matcher->find_all( ).
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