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From: A. Kretschmer <akretschmer@despammed.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression question
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 16:13:02 +0200
Message-ID: <20050905141302.GE29043@webserv.wug-glas.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431C4EB2.80401@mediaroot.de>
References: <431C4EB2.80401@mediaroot.de>

am  05.09.2005, um 14:57:06 +0100 mailte Aldor folgendes:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to get out a string only with characters A-Za-z.

like this?

test=# select * from foo;
   s
--------
 123
 abz
 abz123
(3 rows)

test=# select * from foo where s ~ '^[a-zA-Z]+$';
  s
-----
 abz
(1 row)


> Any idea how to do this in Postgres with POSIX Regex?

The term '[a-zA-Z]+' means: this chars at least one times, the '^' and
'$' are anchors to the begin and end of the line.

Hope that helps,


Regards, Andreas
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