Re: RE in WHERE - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Eckermann
Subject Re: RE in WHERE
Date
Msg-id 20021010193058.15843.qmail@web20808.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to RE in WHERE  (Patrick Nelson <pnelson@neatech.com>)
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--- Patrick Nelson <pnelson@neatech.com> wrote:
> SELECT * FROM secure WHERE ~ '^12\.';
>
> displays
>
>     host
> -----------------
>  12.28.18.10
>  12.41.17.174
>  128.121.247.126
> ...
>
> Escaping the dot should only show the 12. entries
> right?  What is the proper
> RE for this?
>
Your statement goes through two rounds of parsing,
with escape characters being stripped off each time,
so your literal '.' is being interpreted as a
metacharacter.  Try doubling your backslash escape.

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