Re: Literal '-' in regular expression bracket sets

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:50:55AM -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, 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\-\.]+$' )
> > );
>
> I think you might have to move the dash to the beginning of the character
> set.  I can't find an easy way to make it happy otherwise. I believe the
> '.' doesn't need to be escaped.

That worked - thanks!