Re: Regular expression problem - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Manuel Sugawara
Subject Re: Regular expression problem
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Msg-id m31xt3hh6t.fsf@conexa.fciencias.unam.mx
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In response to Regular expression problem  (Matias Surdi <matiass@interlap.com.ar>)
List pgsql-sql
Matias Surdi <matiass@interlap.com.ar> writes:

> Hi... I'm dealing with a regular expression in a check constraint for many
> days.... i'm stuck with this...
> 
> what I'm doing is adding a check to an existing table on a field called
> codigoex1 (varchar(9) )
> 
> check (codigoex1 ~* '[a-z]{2,2}')
> 
> and I can't get it to work!
> I want to validate only input data such as "ar" "Us" "bR" and NOT something
> like "rum" "a"

Use something like '^[a-z]{2}$'

Regards,
Manuel.


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