Thread: Change Windows path to Unix path...

--- Patrick.FICHE@AQSACOM.COM wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to execute COPY command from some pgsql
> function.
> The filename is given as an argument of the
> function.
> But I get the filename like 'F:\tmp\file.txt' and I
> need to change this to
> 'F:/tmp/file.txt' before applying the COPY command.
>
> I dind't succeed to replace '\' by '/' in the
> filename.

Did you escape the backslash?  Postgresql interprets
that as a C-style escape sequence.

Try something like:

create function win32tounix(varchar) returns varchar
as $$
  select replace($1, '\\', '/');
$$ language sql;



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Thanks,

That's exactly what I was looking for.


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-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Shelby Cain
Sent: mardi 26 avril 2005 17:52
To: Patrick.FICHE@aqsacom.com; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Change Windows path to Unix path...



--- Patrick.FICHE@AQSACOM.COM wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to execute COPY command from some pgsql
> function.
> The filename is given as an argument of the
> function.
> But I get the filename like 'F:\tmp\file.txt' and I
> need to change this to
> 'F:/tmp/file.txt' before applying the COPY command.
>
> I dind't succeed to replace '\' by '/' in the
> filename.

Did you escape the backslash?  Postgresql interprets
that as a C-style escape sequence.

Try something like:

create function win32tounix(varchar) returns varchar
as $$
  select replace($1, '\\', '/');
$$ language sql;



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