On Tuesday 1. September 2009, Ian Barwick wrote:
>This seems to do what you want:
>
> my_int := (REGEXP_MATCHES(txt, E'^#(\\d+)'))[1];
Great! I had no idea that REGEXP_MATCHES() could do that kind of stuff.
pgslekt=> select (REGEXP_MATCHES('#42 blabla', E'^#(\\d+)'))
[1]::integer;
regexp_matches
----------------
42
(1 row)
Thank you very much.
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