On Friday 07 July 2006 14:51, T E Schmitz wrote:
> I would like to split the contents of a column using substring with a
> regular expression:
>
> SELECT
> substring (NAME, '^\\d+mm') as BASE_NAME,
> substring (NAME, ??? ) as SUFFIX
> FROM MODEL
>
> The column contains something like
> "150mm LD AD Asp XR Macro"
> I want to split this into
> "150mm", "LD AD Asp XR Macro"
>
> How can I extract the bit following the matching substring?
select substring('150mm LD AD Asp XR Macro','^\\d+mm') as BASE_NAME,
substring('150mm LD AD Asp XR Macro','^\\d+mm (.*)$') as SUFFIX;
base_name | suffix
-----------+--------------------
150mm | LD AD Asp XR Macro
(1 row)
The brackets surround the required match
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