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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Aldor <an@mediaroot.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression question
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 16:19:28 +0200
Message-ID: <200509051619.29210.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431C4EB2.80401@mediaroot.de>
References: <431C4EB2.80401@mediaroot.de>

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.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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