On 7/7/06, T E Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But that takes me to the next problem:

For the sake of the example I simplified the regular pattern.
In reality, BASE_NAME might be:

28mm
28-70mm

So the reg. expr. requires brackets:

substring (NAME, '^(\\d+(-\\d+)?mm)' ) as BASE_NAME

Actually, the pattern is more complex than that and I cannot see how I
can express it without brackets.

Maybe:

select
substring ('150mm LD AD Asp XR Macro', '^[\\d-]*mm' ) as BASE_NAME
, substring('150mm LD AD Asp XR Macro','^[\\d-]*mm (.*)$') as SUFFIX;

select
substring ('28-70mm LD AD Asp XR Macro', '^[\\d-]*mm' ) as BASE_NAME
, substring('28-70mm LD AD Asp XR Macro','^[\\d-]*mm (.*)$') as SUFFIX;

etc...

Regards,

Rodrigo

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