"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Given we don't have a regexp_count function this isn't surprising... FYI, it's there in HEAD. In the meantime, you could possibly do something like =# select count(*) from regexp_matches('My High Street', '([A-Z][a-z]+[\s])', 'g'); count ------- 2 (1 row) (Note that 2 is the correct answer given that there's no space after the third word; I trust Oracle agrees.) regards, tom lane