-- -- Perl Weekly Challenge 287 -- Task 2 -- See -- CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS pwc287; CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pwc287.task2_plpgsql( n text ) RETURNS bool AS $CODE$ DECLARE counter int := 0; BEGIN SELECT count( x ) INTO counter FROM regexp_matches( n, '^[+-]?\d+(.\d+)?(E[+-]?\d+)?$' ) x; IF counter > 0 THEN RETURN true; ELSE RETURN false; END IF; END $CODE$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;