Thank you Kevin! I missed the start of string and end of string matching.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Kevin Grittner <kgri...@ymail.com> wrote:
> Sanjaya Vithanagama <svithanag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I can match the numeric value and the rest of the string after
> > the numeric value using the following:
> >
> > select regexp_matches('hello+123123.453the-123re',
> >
> '([\+|-]?(?:\d*(?:(?:\.)?\d+)))(.*)')
> > outputs array {+123123.453,the-123re}.
> >
> > Where I am having trouble is with matching the first part of the
> > string. In other words what needs to be 'RE' in the following
> > expression for it to report the all three elements of the array.
> >
> > select regexp_matches('hello+123123.453the-123re',
> >
> '((RE)[\+|-]?(?:\d*(?:(?:\.)?\d+)))(.*)')
> > should return array {hello,+123123.453,the-123re}.
>
> select regexp_matches('hello+123123.453the-123re',
> '^(.*?)([\+|-]?(?:\d*(?:(?:\.)?\d+)))(.*)$')
>
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Sanjaya
