Re: underscore

Hi Ryanne,

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 04:09 PM, ryanne cruz wrote:

> i have a column wherein a lot of entries has 2 or more names int it.
> these are
> separated by spaces. an example is: "John Doe", "Mary Margaret Smith".
> i need
> to replace the spaces with an underscore. any idea how to do this?

In PHP use preg_replace (http://php.net/preg_replace for details)

In PostgreSQL use replace(string text, from text, to text)

(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/
view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=functions-string.html)

To update a column in a table, you could do something like:

UPDATE table SET column = REPLACE( column, ' ', '_' );

Matthew.

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