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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 13:55:58 +0100
From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>
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To: Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How best to work around the issue - regex string cannot contain
 brackets
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On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 04:53:18PM +0000, Shaozhong SHI wrote:
> One would consider the following would work, but it did not because the
> brackets.
> select regexp_matches('Department for Transport (Parking)', 'Department for
> Transport (Parking)', 'g')
> Can anyone enlighten me?

Perhaps you don't want regexp matching, but simple equality or
substring match?

depesz