Re: Regular expression character escape

From: Heiko Wundram <modelnine(at)modelnine(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Regular expression character escape
Date: 2012-02-24 16:09:45
Message-ID: 4F47B649.2080801@modelnine.org
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Am 24.02.2012 17:04, schrieb Ronan Dunklau:
> On 24/02/2012 16:38, David Johnston wrote:
>> You could (should?) write the escaping routine on the server side in a user-defined function:
>>
>> WHERE some_col ~ ('^' || make_regexp_literal(user_submitted_stringliteral) || '\d*$')
>
> I totally agree, but I hoped I could use an already existing function
> without having to read the whole spec to figure what should and should
> not be escaped.

Use the corresponding function of your programming language/framework of
choice. E.g. Python delivers this as re.escape().

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--- Heiko.

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