Re: Modifying text data?

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Enrique Arizón Benito <e_arizon_benito(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Modifying text data?
Date: 2002-03-13 16:23:22
Message-ID: 20020313082255.I81426-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On 8 Mar 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Enrique Arizn Benito wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to modify text fields in an "automatic" way so to be able
> for example, to change any 'Canada' substring occurrence with the
> UPPER CASE equivalent "CANADA", with the added option 'Canada'
> appearing anywhere inside the text field.
> While it is very easy to find matching registers by using regular
> expresions, (SELECT * from my_table where my_columm ~* 'canada'; in
> previous example) I find no way to change them afterwards, but
> manually updating each register.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

You might want to look into pl/perl, soundslike something that'd be easy
to do there.

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