Re: Literal dash in regular expression brackets

Hi Steve,

Just put the dash first or last :)

'^[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+$'

or better still

'^[[:alnum:].-]+$'

Tom.

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 03:39, Steve wrote:
>
> I'm trying to place a literal '-' in a bracketed character set in a regular
> expression for a check constraint. I am currently escaping it with a '\',
> however, it still winds up in the table definition as a non-literal dash and
> is interpreted as a character range. For instance:
>
> CREATE TABLE retest
> (
>     hostname VARCHAR(100) CHECK (hostname ~ '^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$' )
> );
>
> works (in the psql utility). Then if I do
>
> INSERT INTO retest(hostname) VALUES ('asdf.com');
>
> psql says
>
> ERROR:  Invalid regular expression: invalid character range in [ ]
>
> If I look at the table definition, the regex reads as '^[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+$'. So
> how do I put a literal '-' in the bracket set? Backslashing doesn't seem to
> work. Is the '.' being interpreted too? The '.' is supposed to be a literal
> '.' as well.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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