Regexp matching - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Eduardas Kazakas
Subject Regexp matching
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Msg-id AANLkTik3Q_aKtfo1kYXof2TL4MUEBBkO737Qu=K7f-ME@mail.gmail.com
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Hello, I have some problems using character class matching (e.g. [:alpha:]).

For example I have a table:

CREATE TABLE re_test (text_column character varying (50) NOT NULL);

Notice, that there is some specific characters.

INSERT INTO re_test VALUES ('AŠDF');
INSERT INTO re_test VALUES ('AŠDF45');
INSERT INTO re_test VALUES ('AŠDF FDŠA');
INSERT INTO re_test VALUES ('ASDF FDŠA');
INSERT INTO re_test VALUES ('58ASDF FDŠA');
INSERT INTO re_test VALUES ('ašDf');
INSERT INTO re_test VALUES ('aŠdf');

SELECT * FROM re_test WHERE text_column ~ '[^[:alpha:]]' and text_column ~ [:upper:];

Goal:
I want to write such statement which returns me only those records which have only one word and those words must be uppercase.
So I expect this statemet to return only one record where text_column = AŠDF.

Maybe someone could give me more detail explanation how to use those regexp classes, because the documentation tells very little about this.

Some more information:

PostgreSQL9

OS - Windows x86-32
DB encoding - UTF-8
lc_collate - English_United States.1252
lc_ctype - English_United States.1252
lc_messages - English_United States.1252
lc_monetary - English_United States.1252
lc_numeric - English_United States.1252
lc_time - English_United States.1252

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