I have a simple table with a varchar(32) field that I am trying to extract data using regular expressions.

select * from spam where inetaddr like '100.%'
row | inetaddr | tdate ------+--------------+---------------------------
3245 | 100.81.98.51 | 03/08/2011 07:21:19.29209    -----works fine


select * from spam where inetaddr like E'\d\d\d.%'
row | inetaddr | tdate
-----+----------+-------
(0 rows) --- zip ???????????

slect * from spam where inetaddr like E'\d.%'
row | inetaddr | tdate -------+--------------------------------+---------------------------- 49424 | d.russell...@jdmarketing.co.uk | 03/27/2011 15:46:41.110566 ??????????? though \d was a digit match????


select * from spam where inetaddr like E'\\d.%'
row | inetaddr | tdate -------+--------------------------------+---------------------------- 49424 | d.russell...@jdmarketing.co.uk | 03/27/2011 15:46:41.110566 ???????????


What am I doing wrong???

thanks

h...@lota.us



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