From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Aldor <an@mediaroot.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression question
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:13:31 -0400
Message-ID: <20050905151331.GA19192@surnet.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509051619.29210.peter_e@gmx.net>
References: <431C4EB2.80401@mediaroot.de>
<200509051619.29210.peter_e@gmx.net>
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:19:28PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Montag, 5. September 2005 15:57 schrieb Aldor:
> > I want to get out a string only with characters A-Za-z.
> > Any idea how to do this in Postgres with POSIX Regex?
>
> Presumably,
>
> colname ~ '^[A-Za-z]*$'
>
> If you want to be independent of locale issues, then you'd have to enumerate
> all the letters instead of using a range specification.
Note that [:alpha:] and such character classes are defined by POSIX to
be locale independent:
alvherre=# select 'á' ~ '[a-z]';
?column?
----------
f
(1 fila)
alvherre=# select 'á' ~ '[[:alpha:]]';
?column?
----------
t
(1 fila)
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Alvaro Herrera -- Valdivia, Chile Architect, www.EnterpriseDB.com
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