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Subject: Re: REGEXP_INSTR range
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 20:56:25 -0400
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 6:33 PM Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

values regexp_instr('abcdef-ghijk' || x'3f', '[\x00-\x3f]') returns 7,
which is what I expected.

values regexp_instr('- - - - - - - - - - -', '[\x00-\x3F]') returns 1,
which is NOT what I expected.

Why did you expect to find the hyphen in the first example but not in
the second?

John Y.

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