Paul Lambert wrote: > Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: > >> Plain regex.... The key are the parenthesis () ... >> basically it will omit ANYTHING + two slashes at the beginning >> of a string. Then it will match everything BUT a slash, and as >> much of that as possible since regex are greedy by default >> (hence the host name he was looking for) ... and everything >> AFTER a slash will be omitted. >> Cheers, >> Andrej > Thanks - that makes a bit more sense. I'm in the middle of reading chapter > 9.3.7 of the manual - POSIX Regular Expressions - which I'm assuming is > dealing with this, so it's looking clearer.
A very good resource on regular expressions is "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl, now in its third edition: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3/ I read the first ed. years ago and it was very illuminating. -- Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/ "Acepta los honores y aplausos y perderás tu libertad" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
