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From: Ken Tanzer <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Regexp matching:  bug or operator error?
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:24:54 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Using Postgres V. 7.4.1, the following query:

    SELECT substring('X12345X' FROM '.*?([0-9]{1,5}).*?');

Returns '1'.  I would expect it to return '12345'.  Is this a bug, or am 
I missing something?  Thanks.


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