From: "Moonstruck" <bogus.email@pls-relpy-to.group>
Subject: Reverse pattern match.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:05:10 +1000
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Message-ID: <3f407aa4$0$15136$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org

I want to create a table of  regular expression patterns (for assessing
phone numbers), something like:
CREATE TABLE CallType ( pattern varchar primary key,
                        type    varchar,
                        rate    int4);
INSERT INTO CallType VALUES ('0[3-9]________','Interstate Call',50);
INSERT INTO CallType VALUES ('9_______','Local Call',25);
INSERT INTO CallType VALUES ('0011__________%','International Call',100);

Then determine call types, based on a match, something like:


PhoneNumber := '99116633';
SELECT type, rate FROM CallType where pattern LIKE PhoneNumber;

(Sorry about the pseudo-code), but you get the gist. The query returns a
calltype description and a call rate based on the comparison of the actual
phone-number to a table of RE patterns.

I can't get my head around a way to do this, can anyone help?

Guy