| From: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
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| To: | Darren Ferguson <darren(at)thread(dot)crystalballinc(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dave Smith <dave(dot)smith(at)candata(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-General-List (E-mail)" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Removing spaces |
| Date: | 2003-02-20 10:19:28 |
| Message-ID: | 200302201019.28765.dev@archonet.com |
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On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 9:25 pm, Darren Ferguson wrote:
> Don't know if this is what you are looking for but the following will
> remove them
>
> select translate('hello \nworld \n',' ','');
But surely this will remove *all* spaces, wheras Dave seemed to want only
spaces before newline characters.
> > > I would like to remove the trailing blanks between the last character
> > > and the newline. I would like to use replace with a regx like
> > > /[ ]+\n/\n/ but it does not seem to work.
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Richard Huxton
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