| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Gabriel Fernandez <gabi(at)unica(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL SQL discussion list <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: How can i escape a '+' or a '+' in a regexp ? |
| Date: | 2001-02-23 18:44:03 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0102231042360.17822-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com |
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I believe you'll need two \ characters to escape the + or *.
titulo ~ '\\+'
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Gabriel Fernandez wrote:
> Hi fellows,
>
> I'm trying to the following query:
>
> select * from areas where titulo ~ '+' or titulo ~ '*'
>
> and the answer is:
>
> ERROR: regcomp failed with error repetition-operator operand invalid
>
> I have tried to escape the '+' and the '*' with a backslash, as
> follows:
>
> select * from areas where titulo ~ '\+' or titulo ~ '\*'
> but the answer is the same.
>
> If I use the LIKE operator, then I have the problem with '%' and '_'
> :-)
>
> As long as the values in the field can contain either '+' or '*' or '%'
> or '_' I need to escape these characters. How can i do it ?
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