[GENERAL] Postgres friendly RegEx?

2006-12-12 Thread Jon Asher

Anyone care to correct this regex for PostgreSQL?  It works in C++ but
Postgres have no love for it:

-{0,1}\d*\.{0,1}\d+\^{0,1}\d*\.{0,1}\d+

This regex accepts  (any num)^(pos num)  such as:
45.2^3
-45.2^3
10^2.5


Re: [GENERAL] Postgres friendly RegEx?

2006-12-12 Thread Tom Lane
Jon Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Anyone care to correct this regex for PostgreSQL?  It works in C++ but
 Postgres have no love for it:

 -{0,1}\d*\.{0,1}\d+\^{0,1}\d*\.{0,1}\d+

It works fine in Postgres, AFAICT.  Maybe you forgot to double the
backslashes in a string literal?  Otherwise, be more specific about
your problem.

regards, tom lane

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Re: [GENERAL] Postgres friendly RegEx?

2006-12-12 Thread Jon Asher

In Postgres, it appears to be returning false positives:

select * from
(select '52'::varchar As val) d
where d.val ~ '-{0,1}\\d*\\.{0,1}\\d+\\^{0,1}\\d*\\.{0,1}\\d+'

returns a record.
In C++ only such values match:   45.2^3  or  -45.2^3  or  10^2.5


On 12/12/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Jon Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Anyone care to correct this regex for PostgreSQL?  It works in C++ but
 Postgres have no love for it:

 -{0,1}\d*\.{0,1}\d+\^{0,1}\d*\.{0,1}\d+

It works fine in Postgres, AFAICT.  Maybe you forgot to double the
backslashes in a string literal?  Otherwise, be more specific about
your problem.

   regards, tom lane



Re: [GENERAL] Postgres friendly RegEx?

2006-12-12 Thread Jon Asher

Please ignore, my mistake in the translation to Pg regex !


On 12/12/06, Jon Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


In Postgres, it appears to be returning false positives:

select * from
(select '52'::varchar As val) d
where d.val ~ '-{0,1}\\d*\\.{0,1}\\d+\\^{0,1}\\d*\\.{0,1}\\d+'

returns a record.
In C++ only such values match:   45.2^3  or  -45.2^3  or  10^2.5


On 12/12/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Jon Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Anyone care to correct this regex for PostgreSQL?  It works in C++ but

  Postgres have no love for it:

  -{0,1}\d*\.{0,1}\d+\^{0,1}\d*\.{0,1}\d+

 It works fine in Postgres, AFAICT.  Maybe you forgot to double the
 backslashes in a string literal?  Otherwise, be more specific about
 your problem.

regards, tom lane





Re: [GENERAL] Postgres friendly RegEx?

2006-12-12 Thread Jeremy Harris

You don't give a pg version.

It looks legal to me as of 8.1.

Try replacing all the {0,1} with ? - but
check the manual for regex_flavor too.
Is there any chance you're in basic mode?

- Jeremy

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