The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1687 Logged by: Halley Pacheco de Oliveira Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 7.4 and 8.0 Operating system: Linux and Windows Description: Regular expression problem (II) Details:
Maybe it would be easier to see the the problem I'm having with regular expressions this way: SELECT '192.168.0.15' SIMILAR TO '([[:alnum:]_-]+).([[:alnum:]_-]+).([[:alnum:]_]+)'; ?column? ---------- t SELECT '192.168.0.15' SIMILAR TO '([\\w-]+).([\\w-]+).([\\w]+)'; ?column? ---------- f SELECT '192.168.0.15' ~ '^([[:alnum:]_-]+)\\.([[:alnum:]_-]+)\\.([[:alnum:]_]+)$'; ?column? ---------- f SELECT '192.168.0.15' ~ '^(([[:alnum:]_-]+)\\.){2}([[:alnum:]_]+)$'; ?column? ---------- f SELECT '192.168.0.15' ~ '^([\\w-]+)\\.([\\w-]+)\\.([\\w]+)$'; ?column? ---------- f SELECT '192.168.0.15' ~ '^(([\\w-]+)\\.){2}([\\w]+)$'; ?column? ---------- f Why does the first query gives a different output? It is not exactly the same as the second query and similar to the others? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster