From: | Howard Cole <howardnews(at)selestial(dot)com> |
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To: | "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Quick Regex Question |
Date: | 2007-12-20 11:18:10 |
Message-ID: | 476A4F72.6000301@selestial.com |
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:51:34AM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote:
>
>> am Thu, dem 20.12.2007, um 10:36:08 +0000 mailte Howard Cole folgendes:
>>
>>> Your expression works fine Richard, as does '(^| )ho', but can you tell
>>> me why '[ ^]ho' doesn't work?
>>>
>> With ^ you means an anchor, but within the brackets it's a simple char.
>>
>
> Err no, it inverts the test. [^ ] means any character *except* a space.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
Hi Marijn, Andreas,
I think Andreas is right, note the ordering of characters in the above
example as [ ^] rather than [^ ].
So if the '^' is taken as literal '^', can I check for the beginning of
a string in the brackets, or am I forced to use the (^| ) syntax?
Is it just me or are regular expressions crazy?
Howard
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