From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Aldor <an@mediaroot.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: POSIX Regular Expression question
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:33:56 -0500
Message-ID: <20050906153356.GD30161@wolff.to> (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 16:19:28 +0200,
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> 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]*$'
>
> If you want to be independent of locale issues, then you'd have to enumerate
> all the letters instead of using a range specification.
Or use:
colname ~ '^[[:alpha:]]*$'
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