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To: Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: How best to work around the issue - regex string cannot contain brackets
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 08:58:45 -0800
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> On Feb 3, 2022, at 08:53, Shaozhong SHI <shishaozhong@gmail.com> 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?
You escape the ()s with a backslash:
xof=# select regexp_matches('Department for Transport (Parking)', 'Department for Transport \(Parking\)', 'g');
regexp_matches
----------------------------------------
{"Department for Transport (Parking)"}
(1 row)
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