Thanks a lot for all help! I understand how trim work now.
>> You could probably use instead:
>> select replace('<BR/>ROI Engineering Inc.', '<BR/>', '')
> That would zap occurrences in the middle of the string, though.
> regexp_replace would be better since it'd allow anchoring the
> pattern, eg
>
> select regexp_replace('<BR/>ROI Engineering Inc.', '^<BR/>', '');
> select regexp_replace('ROI Engineering Inc.<BR/>', '<BR/>$', '');
This is exactly I am looking for, but my version
PostgreSQL 8.0.15 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.2
does not support this func, and have to think about the other way to
'trim' the ^<BR/> & <BR>$
Thank you again!
