Re: Regexp matching: bug or operator error? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From: "Ken Tanzer" <ktanzer@desc.org>


> Using Postgres V. 7.4.1, the following query:
>
>     SELECT substring('X12345X' FROM '.*?([0-9]{1,5}).*?');
>
> Returns '1'.  I would expect it to return '12345'.  Is this a bug, or am
> I missing something?  Thanks.

the results of mixing greedy and non-greedy repetitions can be difficult to
predict.

try SELECT substring('X12345X' FROM '\\D*(\\d{1,5}).*?');

gnari