Re: Removing whitespace using regexp_replace - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Andreas Kretschmer wrote on 28.10.2007 13:32:
>> But it seems my problem was actually caused by something else:
>>
>> SELECT regexp_replace(myfield, '\s*', '', 'g')
>> FROM mytable;
> 
> you should escape the \, change to ...'\\s*'...
Ah! Didn't think this was necessary, as \t or \n did not need to be escaped.

> But without anchors this replaces all whitespaces, also within the text
> and not only at the beginning/end (^ and $)
Yes of course, this was only for testing ;)

Thanks for your help!

Thomas