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Regular expressions are somewhat new to me in the sense of, I know what they are, it’s just I have never had to use them. I’ve always gotten by using the LIKE search pattern. However, I wanted to replicate a particular UPDATE in PostgreSQL that I carried-out in MS Access (not with regex’s there either) and discovered a need for basic regex search and match in order to accomplish it. Let’s visit and learn about the regexp_match() function and how I used it…