Re: [GENERAL] regexp problem

[Steve Crawford]

On 02/24/2011 10:25 AM, Gauthier, Dave wrote:
select 'abc.def[0]' ~ E'^[a-zA-Z0-9_*\.\[\]*]+$';

Try:
E'^[a-zA-Z0-9._\\[\\]]+$'

The "outer" level of parsing turns that into '^[a-zA-Z0-9._\[\]]+$' 
which is the regex you want. Also, I'm *pretty sure* you don't need to 
escape the '.' within a character class.

Cheers,
Steve