On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:46:31AM +0000, Anatoli Lau wrote: > select regexp_matches('/a/b[534]', E'(.*)\[([0-9]*)\]'); > always gives the error but > select regexp_matches('/a/b{534}', E'(.*)\{([0-9]*)\}'); > works good, the problems comes up only when '[' used
it would be good to show what kind of error it shows. i can only guess that you are running it through psql, and the error you get is: ERROR: invalid regular expression: parentheses () not balanced in such case, change "\[" to "\\[": # select regexp_matches('/a/b[534]', E'(.*)\\[([0-9]*)\\]'); regexp_matches ---------------- {/a/b,534} (1 row) depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/ jid/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / aim:depeszhdl / skype:depesz_hdl / gg:6749007 -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs