Re: trouble with regular expression

Tom,
Thanks a lot! It worked.

Tom Lane wrote:
> Pushker Chaubey <pchaubey(at)vertex(dot)co(dot)in> writes:
>
>> (Please note that I just replaced similar to with ~*)
>>
>
> They're not the same ... SIMILAR TO is SQL-spec which is almost entirely
> unlike POSIX.
>
> You can get there using the undocumented similar_escape function:
> "a SIMILAR TO b" is actually implemented as "a ~ similar_escape(b,null)",
> so "a ~* similar_escape(b,null)" should do what you want.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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