Questions tagged [regex]
The term REGEX is a shortening of the phrase "regular expression". A regex is typically a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings.
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How to regex_replace strings with a table of regex/replacement pairs
I'm using Postgres. I have a table of poorly formatted data:
ID
Email
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person1@gmial.com
2
person2 at gmial.com
3
pErSoN3@wRoNgDoMaIn.CoM
I want to allow users to upload regular expressions ...
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REGEXP_SUBSTR equivalent in MSSQL
I migrate from Oracle DB to Postgres/MS-SQL and I want to use REGEXP_SUBSTR equivalent with these databases. I need to rewrite this statement to these databases:
SELECT b.id,
b.name,
b....
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Regex replace to ignore certain pattern at the beginning if exists and format the rest
How to use regex replace to ignore country code if it exists, I tried to use
select REGEXP_REPLACE(phone_number,'^/(?:011.44.)([[:digit:]]{3})\.([[:digit:]]{3})\.([[:digit:]]{4})$',
'\1-\2-\3') ...
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To trim particular value in a column in Oracle sql
I have a regular expression select statement like below :
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE(nvl(l.text_1, l.text),'^'||21810||'=|\|'
||21810||'=', '|'||21810||'='||'B1')
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Look for a list of specific characters using RegEx
I'm trying to write a query (Postgres 8.2.15) which is checking whether the value in column1 consists of:
English alphabet only (A-Z), there should be no specific characters with umlaut/ablaut coming ...
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Renaming all occurances of an HTML class name inside a table with SQL
In a MYSQL database of a CMS all occurances of a specific HTML class name should be pre-fixed.
Let's say the table of interest is table_article and the HTML code inside this table is like this:
<...
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Filtering Escape Characters in PostgreSQL
I am trying to filter distinct serial number from a table and join two tables. Current my code looks like
SELECT DISTINCT ON (t1.serial_nbr) t1.*, q1.serl_nbr
FROM ( select
serial_nbr,...
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Using caret (^) for pattern list matching negation in SIMILAR TO and ~ queries in Redshift
I'm quite new to using POSIX regex in Redshift. I honestly think that this pattern must be compatible.
[^A-Za-z0-9\\.\\,-]+
However, as I've tried a query like this
SELECT * FROM my_table WHERE ...
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Optimizing regex based query in sqlite
I'm using an sqlite database to store manually created labels for some data automatically queried from a live system. The data from the live system consists primarily of an address, comprised of 3 ...
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Replacing a specific string in oracle
I've a database value 'INS. Company Cancelled' where multiple values are separated by '.'
I'm trying to replace 'INS' with 'INSEXP' my expected result is 'INSEXP. Company Cancelled'
I've tried below ...
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What's the difference between REGEXP_SUBSTR and REGEXP_EXTRACT?
What's the difference between REGEXP_SUBSTR and REGEXP_EXTRACT?
As far as I can tell, they seem to do the same thing. Is there some difference in side-effects, or how they perform for certain inputs? ...
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Postgresql Regex - escape possessive quantifiers [closed]
I have a query that is formed in Java
SELECT * from COMPONENTS WHERE name ~* = 'searchTerm';
This query hits PostgreSQL via JDBC and returns the results. I have to use ~* because the user from the UI ...
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How to extract certificate attributes from a single column and split into many?
In my table I've a field (let say cert_attr) which stores Certificate X.509 Attributes.
Here is the example of 3 rows (each line corresponds to a field):
"CN=User1, OU=Eng, O=Company Ltd, L=D4, S=...
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How to call a function in regex_replace with matches?
I'd like to use some processing function instead of replacement text in regex_replace function. Is there possible to use a function with matches as arguments, like:
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE( description, ...
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How to sum the values of a json column filtered with regex?
How to sum the values of a json column filtered with regex?
Columns:
A.name: Varchar with name product
B.products: JSON with time active By product
Query:
select
A.name as product,
sum(((...
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Count numbers in scientific notation (E-notation)
I'm trying to check if a part number field has scientific notation values and came up with this simple solution:
SELECT count(*) as overall,
count(*) filter (where partnumber ilike '%E+%') as ...
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Convert column value stripping html tags into sql view with rows and columns
I have a table named data with a column pid & display_data.
Pid is the serial number of all rows.
The value of display_data column is as below :
For each row display_Data has values in the format =...
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SQLite, ASCII Characters 0x20 to 0x7E Check Constraint
I have the following table which I'm trying to limit the column name to ASCII characters ranging from 0x20 to 0x7E. Why is it not working?
CREATE TABLE test
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id INTEGER NOT NULL,
name TEXT ...
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oracle find to first hyphens after last vertical bar
oracle find to first hyphens after last vertical bar using REGEXP_REPLACE
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE ('sadsa|dd|g - g|hh|yyyyy - tttt - ooo', '.*(\|)(?!.*\|).*?\-{1}', '' ) FROM dual;
string input
'...
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How to check if a string contains a sequence of binary regexp chars in postgres
I am trying to filter all non-UTF characters in a field of a table in postgres. It looks to me that I need to filter anything that is not:
$$[\09\0A\0D\x20-\x7E]|$$|| -- ASCII
$$[\xC2-...
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MariaDB REGEXP_REPLACE Invalid utf8 byte sequence
I'm working with a fairly old (15 years) old database. It started as a MySQL3, was upgraded several times, the frontends had problems with proper encoding, the whole database was converted to utf8mb4 (...
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Is there an operator or an easy way to match an expression one or more times with the LIKE operator in SQL?
For example if I run the following query, the expression in the WHERE clause will only match on the first letter before a number but is there a way to match on one or more letters first (e.g. in the ...
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How to select any couple of digits except '00' using mysql regex subset syntax?
I just found out that mysql doesn't support full regular expressions syntax. I have to select any couple of digits except of 00 (so, 11, 54, 02, are ok, but not 00).
Normally I would use a negative ...
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How to query mysql tables with regular expressions?
I'm using a correct regex, already tested with other tools. But in mysql seems not to work properly. Say this data:
And I want to select all the records which start with 2 non-digits followed by a ...
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Using to_base64 function and regexp_replace with backreferences in MariaDB
I am using MariaDB 10.3. I want to replace a string using REGEX and encode part of the result into base64.
For example, I want to first invert the "a" and "b" strings in this example:
MariaDB [(none)...
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Date pattern regex doesn't match the records in PostgreSQL query?
I am working with a dataset in PostgreSQL which is quick messy. I have written a few regex operations to find date patterns in the records of a table. Since I don't have a generalized REGEX defined ...
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check if MySQL is using the Henry Spencer implementation for REGEX
Prior to MySQL 8.0.4, MySQL used the Henry Spencer implementation for REGEX and you could use this for word boundaries:
'[[:<:]]' and '[[:>:]]'
From 8.0.4 MySQL is using the ICU implementation ...
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Need help with Regex in SQL Server query editior
I have a file with thousand lines of codes with index details like below:
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM SYS.INDEXES WITH (NOLOCK) WHERE name = 'IX_Test1' AND [object_id] = OBJECT_ID(N'Test1', N'U'))
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Convert Ruby regex to Postgres regex, for selecting invalid email addresses
I've done some internet trawling, and some reading of the Postgres regex docs, but I'm at the stage where I think asking a question here is the best thing to do.
I have the following Ruby regex:
/\A[...
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Cleaning up bad data with REGEXP_REPLACE too aggressive with non latin chars
Trying to use REGEXP_REPLACE to clean up a text field in a table.
Here's my query:
select title original ,REGEXP_REPLACE(title, '[^a-zA-Z0-9]+', ' ') clean
from tmp_table2
WHERE txn_title like '%?%'
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SQL regex to identify alphanumeric values
I am trying to exclude values like 3708.DK in sql. I'm using pattern like LIKE '%0-9.%' and '%[0-9.A-Z]%' and its not working .
Please suggest.
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Regex replace with empty string results in NULL characters in between
Replacing a character with regexp_replace results in NUL characters in between.
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE(aColumn,'c', '')
INTO OUTFILE 'Replaced.csv';
for abcd results in:
ab d (infact: abNULd)
This ...
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Mysql Regex on where clause
I need a regular expression which will give me only those records which match a pattern.Below is table structure
auto_id (Auto-increment) | json_string (Text)
Sample records are:
auto_id | ...
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Using Regex in mySQL query
I have a database column with multiple names separated by line breaks like this:
jones, sue
jones, mark
I want to generate a query that keeps the first line and discards the rest, no matter how many ...
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how to regexp positive lookaheads in MySQL
I want to filter as regexp like "(?=nkf)(?=bom)" in MySQL.
This example regexp works in PHP, JavaScript and other.
This regexp means both words include "nkf" and "bom".
I try the regexp in WordPress ...
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How to clean every non-digit except the + at beginning of string with regexp_replace in Postgresql?
Related to a comment, I would like to find a way to clean with regexp_replace in PostgreSQL any non-digit except the + at beginning of the string.
For example +(7)9125415501 shall become +79125415501
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Oracle regular expression replace in string ignoring first and last characters
regular expression replace in string ignoring first and last characters if they matched
my try
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE ('TLYU TK0T23T', '[^(\A.)]T[^(.\Z)]', 'Qq' ) contain FROM dual;
result
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Postgres - Return default value if regex match fails
I'd like to attempt a regex match, and return null if it fails.
The following query attempts to find the first number in a string. The result ignores the entry with text 'blah'. I'd prefer it to ...
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SQL Regex String Matching of Two Words
I'm trying to write a query to show the rows containing a code that begins with 11-digit number followed by -1 or -2 then _DataSheet or _RoHS
Examples
02704198976-1_DataSheet
03448106681-1_RoHS
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Capitalize first letter with exceptions
I need to properly format some European addresses.
One of the steps is to capitalize the first letter, but avoiding some specific words, like 'on', 'upon', 'von', 'van', 'di', 'in', 'sul'.
Therefore, ...
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What is it called when you search the middle of a string instead of the beginning?
I am trying to polish up my vocabulary to better communicate with my fellow developers. We have several places in the site where we are debating if we should search for a string from the beginning '...
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SQL regex PostgreSQL
Let's consider a table like that:
id | name
1 | This is a test sentence
2 | is a sentence TeST
3 | This a IS test sentence
4 | iS a tEst sentence tHis
5 | This a test sentence is
How ...
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Problem to apply replacement with regexp that include look ahead in Postgres
I have this kind of string 12s2-3a abc def and I am trying to apply the regexp ^(?=.*\d) to remove the first part and having as left abc def.
I have tried with:
select substring ('12s2-3 abc def' ...
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Why is LIKE producing different results than my regex?
Using Postgres 9.5. Having some trouble using regular expressions to find matching rows. I tried
select * FROM my_object_times t where t.name ~ '/\(.*\)\s*$/'
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(0 rows)
which returned no rows, ...
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REGEXP in a where clause
I store s3 bucket's path for files in my database. Files can be either pictures(jpg) or pdfs.
Let's suppose I have uploaded photo.jpg to my database via application, path will be like:
/{s3bucket}/...
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Querying non-ASCII rows from Postgres
Does [:ascii:] class work in Postgres at all? It is not listed in their help, however I see examples in the web which utilize it.
I have a UTF-8 database, where collation and c_type are en_US.UTF-8, ...
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SQLite, ASCII A-Z Check Constraint
I have the following table which I'm trying to limit the column "prefix" to ASCII alphabetical characters. However, I am still able to insert other characters after using the following constraint. Why ...
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Display a field using regex
I have a table with a field in with data such as:
id | path
1 | /2/9/1
2 | /2/4/11
3 | /1/3/11
4 | /5/3/2
5 | /2/1/4
I'm wanting to do a select query to show only the first number between ...
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Repeating pattern X amount of times in LIKE
I took a look at the documentation for patterns from Microsoft (can be found here), and from what I understood, it doesn't say a way for a pattern to repeat a limited number of times. It's either the ...
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How to use character classes in a Postgres regex select?
I'm trying to create a query that selects strings that contain the number 21, without hitting strings such as 210 or 121. My efforts below have shown my progress, in that I've managed to apply a ...
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