Le Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:08:12PM +0000, Desmond Coughlan a écrit ...
> I'm working through Bruce Momjian's online tutorial on PostreSQL, and am
> now trying to get my head around regular expressions. The tutorial says
> that ~ '^X' where 'X' is a character, will find table entries beginning
> with that character.
>
> When I try it ...
>
> SELECT * FROM testdb ~'^d' ;
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "~"
>
> I get this, irrespective of the regular expression that I use. It _is_ a
> tilde, isn't it ? Or is my eyesight going ..? :-(
Perhaps a 'WHERE' wouldn't have gone astray. Doh !!
Sorry about that. :-)
D.
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