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Doc: work a little harder on the initial examples for regex matching.
Writing unnecessary '.*' at start and end of a POSIX regex doesn't do much except confuse the reader about whether that might be necessary after all. Make the examples in table 9.16 a tad more realistic, and try to turn the next group of examples into something self-contained. Per gripe from rmzgrimes. Back-patch to v13 because it's easy. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161215841824.14653.8969016349304314299@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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String matches regular expression, case sensitively
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</para>
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<para>
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<literal>'thomas' ~ '.*thom.*'</literal>
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<literal>'thomas' ~ 't.*ma'</literal>
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<returnvalue>t</returnvalue>
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</para></entry>
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</row>
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String matches regular expression, case insensitively
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</para>
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<para>
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<literal>'thomas' ~* '.*Thom.*'</literal>
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<literal>'thomas' ~* 'T.*ma'</literal>
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<returnvalue>t</returnvalue>
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</para></entry>
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</row>
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String does not match regular expression, case sensitively
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</para>
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<para>
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<literal>'thomas' !~ '.*thomas.*'</literal>
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<returnvalue>f</returnvalue>
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<literal>'thomas' !~ 't.*max'</literal>
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<returnvalue>t</returnvalue>
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</para></entry>
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</row>
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String does not match regular expression, case insensitively
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</para>
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<para>
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<literal>'thomas' !~* '.*vadim.*'</literal>
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<returnvalue>t</returnvalue>
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<literal>'thomas' !~* 'T.*ma'</literal>
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<returnvalue>f</returnvalue>
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</para></entry>
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</row>
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</tbody>
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<para>
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Some examples:
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<programlisting>
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'abc' ~ 'abc' <lineannotation>true</lineannotation>
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'abc' ~ '^a' <lineannotation>true</lineannotation>
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'abc' ~ '(b|d)' <lineannotation>true</lineannotation>
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'abc' ~ '^(b|c)' <lineannotation>false</lineannotation>
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'abcd' ~ 'bc' <lineannotation>true</lineannotation>
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'abcd' ~ 'a.c' <lineannotation>true &mdash; dot matches any character</lineannotation>
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'abcd' ~ 'a.*d' <lineannotation>true &mdash; <literal>*</literal> repeats the preceding pattern item</lineannotation>
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'abcd' ~ '(b|x)' <lineannotation>true &mdash; <literal>|</literal> means OR, parentheses group</lineannotation>
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'abcd' ~ '^a' <lineannotation>true &mdash; <literal>^</literal> anchors to start of string</lineannotation>
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'abcd' ~ '^(b|c)' <lineannotation>false &mdash; would match except for anchoring</lineannotation>
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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