Something inside parenthesis, not sure if it specify the end of the string, in my case the parentheisis is at the end...
:) Richard On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Dave S <snidely....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, July 8, 2016 at 12:13:41 PM UTC-7, Richard wrote: >> >> Answer is yes it work just fine... >> >> db(db.ref_colorimeter_color.filter_parameter.belongs(['delta_a', >> 'delta_a_b'])).select(db.ref_colorimeter_color.color, >> orderby="substring(color, '\(([^\)]+)\)')") >> >> But with this : >> >> db.ref_colorimeter_color.color.regexp('\(([^\)]+)\)') >> >> It doesn't seems to work as DAL translate it into : >> >> SELECT ref_colorimeter_color.color >> FROM ref_colorimeter_color >> WHERE (ref_colorimeter_color.filter_parameter IN ('delta_a_b','delta_a')) >> ORDER BY (ref_colorimeter_color.color ~ '\(([^\)]+)\)'); >> >> Which don't seems to help in sorting record... I try to understand why >> regexp get translated that way : >> >> >> >> https://github.com/web2py/pydal/blob/e1136b6e29e4dbeb878cf9718c053aa790d909b5/pydal/dialects/postgre.py#L78 >> >> I am not sure the rational of : >> >> order by field_name ~ regexp >> >> I can find anything in postgres documentation as far as my search goes... >> >> Richard >> >> > OT: that's one of those regexps that makes me dizzy. Trying to find > strings that begin with a part in parentheses? > > /dps > > > >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Richard <ml.richa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Can we do that : >>> >>> >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8989098/postgres-order-data-by-part-of-string >>> >>> ? >>> >>> Maybe like this ? >>> >>> orderby='substring(tablename.fieldname, ...)' >>> >>> ?? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> -- >>> Resources: >>> - http://web2py.com >>> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >>> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >>> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "web2py-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to web2py+un...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.