Thank you Kevin! I missed the start of string and end of string matching.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:06 AM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sanjaya Vithanagama <svithanagama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can match the numeric value and the rest of the string after
> the numeric value using the following:
>
> select regexp_matches('hello+123123.453the-123re',
> '([\+|-]?(?:\d*(?:(?:\.)?\d+)))(.*)')
> outputs array {+123123.453,the-123re}.
>
> Where I am having trouble is with matching the first part of the
> string. In other words what needs to be 'RE' in the following
> _expression_ for it to report the all three elements of the array.
>
> select regexp_matches('hello+123123.453the-123re',
> '((RE)[\+|-]?(?:\d*(?:(?:\.)?\d+)))(.*)')
> should return array {hello,+123123.453,the-123re}.
select regexp_matches('hello+123123.453the-123re',
'^(.*?)([\+|-]?(?:\d*(?:(?:\.)?\d+)))(.*)$')
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