On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM, John Gage <jsmg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In going through the arcana of string functions, I have come across the
> following series of selects that contain, for me, a mysterious "$re$".
>
> -- return all matches from regexp
> SELECT regexp_matches('foobarbequebaz', $re$(bar)(beque)$re$);The $re$ is just an arbitrary identifier for a dollar-quoted string constant. See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html Maybe you're on an old version which doesn't support dollar-quoted strings? On 8.3 for the above query, I get: SELECT regexp_matches('foobarbequebaz', $re$(bar)(beque)$re$); regexp_matches ---------------- {bar,beque} (1 row) Josh -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
