Re: how to do a find and replace

Dawn Buie wrote:
> I used:
> 
> update media_instance set location=replace(location,'v.','')
> where location like '%/0/v.%'
> 
> and that did work-
> 
> thank you very much.
> 
> it seems to me that the replace function is the same as translate()- no?
> 
Right, I forgot your WHERE clause.

Some more details on those functions can be found here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-string.html#FUNCTIONS-STRING-OTHER

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