Re: [SQL] please help me on regular expression

2010-02-03 Thread Lars Gustafsson
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. — Jamie Zawinski 3 feb 2010 kl. 21.32 skrev Tena Sakai: > Thank you, Dirk. > > Regards, > > Tena Sakai > tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu > > > On 2/3/10 11:43 AM, "Dirk Jagdmann" wro

Re: [SQL] please help me on regular expression

2010-02-03 Thread Tena Sakai
Thank you, Dirk. Regards, Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 2/3/10 11:43 AM, "Dirk Jagdmann" wrote: > Be careful when working with backslashes and regular expressions for > the proper (double) escaping! > > # select '70a5' ~ e'\\d+\.\\d+'; > ?column? > -- > t > (1 row) > > # sel

Re: [SQL] please help me on regular expression

2010-02-03 Thread Dirk Jagdmann
Be careful when working with backslashes and regular expressions for the proper (double) escaping! # select '70a5' ~ e'\\d+\.\\d+'; ?column? -- t (1 row) # select '70a5' ~ e'\\d+\\.\\d+'; ?column? -- f (1 row) # select '70.5' ~ e'\\d+\\.\\d+'; ?column? -- t -- ---

Re: [SQL] please help me on regular expression

2010-02-03 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi, Thanks for your reply. Indeed, why not? Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu On 2/3/10 3:38 AM, "msi77" wrote: > Why not to use > > select subjectid, height > from tsakai.pheno > where height like '%.%'; > > ? > >> Hi everybody, >> I need a bit of help on postgres reqular expression. >>

Re: [SQL] please help me on regular expression

2010-02-03 Thread msi77
Why not to use select subjectid, height from tsakai.pheno where height like '%.%'; ? > Hi everybody, > I need a bit of help on postgres reqular expression. > With a table of the following definition: > Table "tsakai.pheno" > Column | Type | Modifiers > ---+---+