From: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
To: Leif B. Kristensen <leif@solumslekt.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Plpgsql: Assign regular expression match to variable
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 21:36:18 +0900
Message-ID: <1d581afe0909010536g6fdb57a0u87c8d748fb9067b6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909011401.00231.leif@solumslekt.org>
References: <200909011401.00231.leif@solumslekt.org>
2009/9/1, Leif B. Kristensen <leif@solumslekt.org>:
> In Plpgsql, I've got this problem of how to assign an integer extracted
> from a regex to a variable. My approach so far feels kludgy:
>
> -- extract ^#(\d+) from txt
> IF txt SIMILAR TO E'#\\d+%' THEN
> my_int := SUBSTR(SUBSTRING(txt, E'#\\d+'), 2,
> LENGTH(SUBSTRING(txt, E'#\\d+')) -1)::INTEGER;
> -- strip ^#\d+ from text
> my_txt := REGEXP_REPLACE(txt, E'^#\\d+ ', '');
> END IF;
>
> What I'd like to do is something like this:
>
> my_int := MATCH(txt, '^#(\d+)')::INTEGER;
>
> which would assign the integer atom (\d+) to my_int.
This seems to do what you want:
my_int := (REGEXP_MATCHES(txt, E'^#(\\d+)'))[1];
Ian Barwick
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