--- On Mon, 10/20/08, pere roca <peroc79@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: pere roca <peroc79@gmail.com>
> Subject: re[GENERAL] moving a portion of text
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 11:21 AM
> hi,
> I have a column with full of data like ATB-OO NCK-TT
> .... how can I
> easily remove the "-" ? it seems that the
> "-" is allways the fourth letter.
>
> thanks,
> Pere
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with fixed length
select substring(tex1,1,3) || substring(tex1,5) from t1
with variable length
select substring(tex1,1,strpos(tex1,'-'::varchar)-1) || substring(tex1,strpos(tex1,'-'::varchar)+1) from t1
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