Re: regexp idea

From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: regexp idea
Date: 2013-08-27 19:57:38
Message-ID: 521D04B2.9000501@gmail.com
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On 08/27/2013 12:44 PM, AI Rumman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a string like:
> Gloucester Catholic vs. St. Augustine baseball, South Jersey
> Non-Public A final, June 5, 2013
>
> I need to extract date part from the string.
>
> I used the follows:
> regexp_matches(title,'[.* ]+\ (Jul|August|Sep)[, a-zA-Z0-9]+' )
>
> But it gives me result August as it stops at "Augustine".
>
> In my case, date can be in different formats, some record may use ","
> or some may not.
>
> Any idea to achieve this?
>
> Thanks.
select regexp_replace('Gloucester Catholic vs. St. Augustine baseball,
South Jersey Non-Public A final, June 5, 2013',
E'(^.*)(\\m(June|July|August|Sep))([, a-zA-Z0-9]+)', E'\\2 \\4' );
+----------------+
| regexp_replace |
+----------------+
| June 5, 2013 |
+----------------+
(1 row)

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