[GENERAL] Validating user-input to be inserted in regular expressions

2005-01-24 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
re special characters (in the sense of regular expressions) but how to know what these special characters are? Should I find every possible character in the documentation for regular expressions? Is there a safer way? Thanks Vincenzo Ciancia -- Please note that I do not read the e-mail address u

Re: [GENERAL] Validating user-input to be inserted in regular expressions

2005-01-25 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Should I find every > possible character in the documentation for regular expressions? Is the answer trivial? I checked the manual and the FAQ, and googled for the answer, but I didn't find it. Is there a more appropriate place where I can ask my questi

Re: [GENERAL] Validating user-input to be inserted in regular expressions

2005-01-25 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Sean Davis wrote: > Yes, this is a fine place to ask your question.ÂÂSometimesÂitÂdoesÂtake > a day or two to get an answer.ÂÂWillÂquote_literalÂdoÂwhatÂyouÂwant? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-string.html > > Search on that page for quote_literal. > Thank you for