Re: how to do a find and replace

am 17.11.2005, um 14:51:05 -0800 mailte Dawn Buie folgendes:
> Hello-
>
> I have a column of data with the wrong prefix for many items.

If you have 8.1? If yes:

>
> The wrong entries are entered ' /0/v.myimage.jpg'
> While the correct ones are ' /0/myimage.jpg'
>
>
> I need to remove all the 'v.' characters from this column.a

test=# select * from foo;
loc
-------------------
/0/v.myimage.jpg
(1 row)

test=# update foo set loc = regexp_replace(loc, '/v\.', '/');
UPDATE 1
test=# select * from foo;
loc
-----------------
/0/myimage.jpg
(1 row)

If no:

a) Upgrade now!
b) write a funcion with plperl for the regexp_replace

HTH, Andreas
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