| From: | Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Johnson, Shaunn" <SJohnson6(at)bcbsm(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: parsing column info |
| Date: | 2002-09-10 21:55:30 |
| Message-ID: | 20020910215530.12437.qmail@web20805.mail.yahoo.com |
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--- "Johnson, Shaunn" <SJohnson6(at)bcbsm(dot)com> wrote:
> I no longer want the decimals in that column. Is
> there
> a way to parse out the decimals when copying this
> into
> a new table?
Assuming that this column is a varchar(50) like the
others, and that all you want is to delete the decimal
points, probably the easiest way is to use the
"translate" builtin function:
SELECT translate(field,'.', '') (I think: check the
syntax under "string functions" in the docs).
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