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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Chris Hoover <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Regexp_replace help
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:22:54 -0700
Message-ID: <CAKFQuwaasAeLsZHfdS+3vCAxumLRbyfNHaX7+xbeqjYK-jz5Qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thursday, September 12, 2024, Chris Hoover <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> SELECT regexp_replace(’This is my second test string and it is causing
> code1234 from def.  The weather is nice. :)’,
>                                          ‘ code[0-9]+? .*’,
>                                          ‘What should this be so I keep
> the code1234?’)
> Desire result:
> ‘This is my second test string and it is causing code1234’
>

Probably easier to just regexp_match “^(.+?code\d+)\b”, and keep the
contents of group 1.

David J.

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