On Feb 28, 2014, at 2:43 PM, George Weaver <gwea...@shaw.ca> wrote:

> From: Steve Atkins
> 
> >Maybe this?
> 
> >select regexp_replace('300 North 126th Street', '(\d+)(?:st|nd|rd|th)', 
> >'\1', 'gi');
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Thanks, but no luck:
> 
> select regexp_replace('300 North 126th Street', E'(\d+)(?:st|nd|rd|th)', 
> E'\1', 'gi');
>      regexp_replace
> ------------------------
>  300 North 126th Street
> 
> George

Those E’s you added completely change the meaning. If you want to
use E-style literals (and you probably don’t) you’ll need to double the
backslashes in all the strings.

Cheers,
  Steve



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