From: Mario Splivalo <mario.splivalo@mobart.hr>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Regular Expression Matching problem...
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:08:45 +0100
Message-ID: <1136383726.8868.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
I have a table containing regular expresion patterns for matching phone
numbers with the mobile operators.
For instance, my phone number is '+385911234567', and the regexp for
this mobile operator is: "^\+38591\d{7}$".
Now, when I do a regexp match in a single select, it behaves as
expected:
octopussy2=# select '+385911234567' ~ '^\\+38591\\d{7}$';
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)
Now, as I've mentioned, I have a table with operators and their patterns
for phone numbers:
octopussy2=# select * from operators;
operator_id | operator_name | operator_phonenumber_pattern
-------------+---------------+------------------------------
1 | FreeSMSC | ^\\+38590\\d{6,7}$
2 | VipNet | ^\\+38591\\d{7}$
3 | T-Mobile | ^\\+3859[9|8]\\d{6,7}$
4 | Tele2 | ^\\+38595\\d{7}$
(4 rows)
Now, if I construct my query like this:
octopussy2=# select '+385911234567', operator_phonenumber_pattern,
'+385911234567' ~ operator_phonenumber_pattern from operators;
?column? | operator_phonenumber_pattern | ?column?
---------------+------------------------------+----------
+385911234567 | ^\\+38590\\d{6,7}$ | f
+385911234567 | ^\\+38591\\d{7}$ | f
+385911234567 | ^\\+3859[9|8]\\d{6,7}$ | f
+385911234567 | ^\\+38595\\d{7}$ | f
(4 rows)
Why do I get all the "f"'s? I tought that the operator_id 2 should
return "t", esp. when I wrote the first query it seems that the regex
match was ok.
Or I can't do regexp matching from the table columns?
Mike
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Mario Splivalo
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