I am using 7.4.1
Basically I am trying to use a regex that will match:
john smith
john r smith
john r. smith
When I use:
siteadmin=# select 'john r. smith' ~ '^\\w+\\s+\\w?\\.?\\s?\\w+$';
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)
all is well but:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f_tmp(TEXT) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS ' --{{{
BEGIN
RETURN $1 ~ ''^\\w+\\s+\\w?\\.?\\s?\\w+$'';
END;
' language 'plpgsql';
siteadmin=# select f_tmp('john r. smith');
f_tmp
-------
f
(1 row)
makes the same regex seem to behave differently. What am I doing wrong?
culley
