On Jun 13, 9:02 am, sma(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)magpie(dot)com (Steve Manes) wrote:
> I apologize if I'm having a rookie brain block, but is there a way to
> massage a string inside a proc to, for instance, strip it of all
> non-alpha characters using a regular expression?
regexp_replace() could work for you, see:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-string.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-matching.html