On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:13:03 -0400
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
>
> > I need to extract the words from department_name and product_name
> > (words are separated by spaces) and get something like:
> >
> > 1 cakes
> > 1 desserts
> > 1 apple
> > 1 crumble
> > 2 cakes
> > 2 desserts
> > 2 cheese
> > 2 cake
> > 3 starters
> > 3 soups
> > 3 french
> > 3 onion
> > 3 soup
>
> regexp_split_to_table is handy (8.3 only):
>
> select pk, regexp_split_to_table(product_name, '[& ]+') from products
> union
> select pk, regexp_split_to_table(dept_name, '[& ]+') from departments;
>
> Add joins as desired.
This is neat!
Unfortunately, on the machine that I need this, we are running 7.4.
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Best Regards,
Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
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