From: Julian Scarfe <julian@avbrief.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Negative lookbehind assertions in regexs
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 15:59:18 +0100
Message-ID: <09d701c5b098$10afee50$0600a8c0@Wilbur> (raw)
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>> I'd like a regex that matches 'CD' but not 'ABCD' in any part of the
>> regex.
From: "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno@wolff.to>
> Something like:
> (^.?CD)|([^B]CD)|([^A]BCD)
Thanks to Bruno, and to Dawid who replied offline. The above does the job
nicely.
Any plans for a Perl Compatible Regular Expression operator?
http://www.pcre.org/
Or are two regex operators enough?
Julian
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