Matthew Peter wrote:
> That doesn't seem to work with digits 
> 
> SELECT substring('12.00.00.34' FROM $$((\d+)\.\2)$$);
>  or 
> SELECT substring('12.00.00.34' FROM $$((\w+)\.\2)$$);
> 
> but works with strings
> 
> SELECT substring('abc.foo.foo.xyz' FROM
> $$((\w+)\.\2)$$);
> 
> What I basically want to do is have a slice function
> like Python, where I can slice out items from a \s, \.
> or \n\n separated list. 

You could always just write it in pl/python...

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