Re: [GENERAL] Regex problems

I get my information. If I do:

select "dept", "last", "first" from "employees" where "last" ~ 'C*';

I get the entire table's worth of matches (883) regardless of what the last name is. Examples that are matched:

The answer is you need to use the meta character that tells the regx engine to look at only the begining of the string for a match.  That is your regular expression should be:

     "^C"

or

   "^C*"

which yields a query like:

   select "dept", "last", "first" from "employees" where "last" ~ "^C";

Adding the 'u' is not a bad idea if you want to get only the last names that start with "Cu".

...james