Ok, how about this. At least it works in my testing.
I have extended it to allow a negative sign (trailing
also), which I would expect to be allowed in a
comprehensive "isnumeric" function. If I am wrong,
feel free to slap me around; although correcting the
regex would be more constructive. ;-)
create function isnumeric(text) returns boolean as '
select $1 ~
\'(-?([0-9]+\\.?[0-9]*|[0-9]*\\.?[0-9]+)|([0-9]+\\.?[0-9]*|[0-9]*\\.?[0-9]+)-?)\'
'language 'sql';
--- Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com> wrote:
> Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 18:48, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Theo, Oliver,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Any reason why you don't like ~
> '^([0-9]?)+\.?[0-9]*$' ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Yes, because it also matches "." , which is not a
> valid numeric value.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> ~ '^([0-9]+|[0-9]+\\.[0-9]*|[0-9]*\\.[0-9]+)$'
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Ah, the brute force approach ;-)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Nothing like using a nice big hammer!
> >
> >
> >
> Would "^([0-9]+\\.{0,1}[0-9]*|\\.[0-9]+)$" be a
> little cleaner?
>
> >>Actually, the above could be written:
> >>
> >>~ '^([0-9]+)|([0-9]*\\.[0-9]+)$'
> >>
> >>
> >
> >But that doesn't allow a trailing decimal point.
> >
> >
> >
> >>... though that still seems inelegant to me. Is
> there a regex expert in the
> >>house?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >All the elegant approaches I can think of match the
> empty string. There
> >must be at least one digit and 0 or 1 decimal point
> with no other
> >characters permitted. If you use this as a
> constraint, you could make
> >it elegant and combine it with another constraint
> to exclude '' and '.'.
> >
> >
>
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