Re: Modifying text data? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Modifying text data?
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Msg-id 20020313082255.I81426-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Modifying text data?  (e_arizon_benito@yahoo.com (Enrique Arizón Benito))
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On 8 Mar 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Enrique Ariz�n Benito wrote:

> Hi,
>  I'm trying to modify text fields in an "automatic" way so to be able
> for example, to change any 'Canada' substring occurrence with the
> UPPER CASE equivalent "CANADA", with the added option 'Canada'
> appearing anywhere inside the text field.
> While it is very easy to find matching registers by using regular
> expresions, (SELECT * from my_table where my_columm ~* 'canada'; in
> previous example) I find no way to change them afterwards, but
> manually updating each register.
>
>  Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

You might want to look into pl/perl, soundslike something that'd be easy
to do there.


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