From: Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au>
To: sql pgsql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Extracting hostname from URI column
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:38:04 +0800
Message-ID: <46E7510C.1090807@autoledgers.com.au> (raw)
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Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> Plain regex.... The key are the parenthesis () ...
> basically it will omit ANYTHING + two slashes at the beginning
> of a string. Then it will match everything BUT a slash, and as
> much of that as possible since regex are greedy by default
> (hence the host name he was looking for) ... and everything
> AFTER a slash will be omitted.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andrej
>
>
Thanks - that makes a bit more sense. I'm in the middle of reading
chapter 9.3.7 of the manual - POSIX Regular Expressions - which I'm
assuming is dealing with this, so it's looking clearer.
--
Paul Lambert
Database Administrator
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