Re: Change a character in a text field

Can you please provide a complete example of how to use this in the
update command?  ie... how do we select the table/field that we want to
interrogate and make the change to?

Thanks!

Karen Stone
Technical Services
MphasiS Health Solutions
602.604.3100 x265

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Grittner
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:23 PM
To: Naomi Walker; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Change a character in a text field

>>> Naomi Walker <nwalker@mhs.mphasis.com> wrote:
> Is there some way with a SQL state to interrogate a text field, and
> replace characters.
>
> For example, we would like all "|"'s to be changed to something else,
on
> a regular basis...

It sounds like you might want to look at the regexp_replace function:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html#F
UNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP

Be sure to use a WHERE clause on your UPDATE with the ~ operator.

-Kevin

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