twoflower wrote
> Source: 123 source text
> Target: 123 target text
> Source pattern: ([0-9]+) source text
> Target pattern: $1 target text
>
> Still, isn't there some super clever way to do that?
You use "\1" instead of "$1"
SELECT regexp_replace('123 abc','(\d+)\s(\w+)','\1 def'); --output: '123
def'
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP
9.7.3 - paragraph beginning "The regexp_replace function provides
substitution..."
David J.
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