Re: Regular expressions in procs - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rodrigo De León
Subject Re: Regular expressions in procs
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Msg-id 1181745964.430170.119790@g37g2000prf.googlegroups.com
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In response to Regular expressions in procs  (Steve Manes <smanes@magpie.com>)
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On Jun 13, 9:02 am, sma...@magpie.com (Steve Manes) wrote:
> I apologize if I'm having a rookie brain block, but is there a way to
> massage a string inside a proc to, for instance, strip it of all
> non-alpha characters using a regular expression?

regexp_replace() could work for you, see:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-string.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-matching.html


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