From: | Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Removing whitespace using regexp_replace |
Date: | 2007-10-28 11:42:47 |
Message-ID: | 20071028114247.GA1327@KanotixBox |
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Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I have a column with the datatype "text" that may contain leading
> whitespace (tabs, spaces newlines, ...) and I would like to remove them all
> (ideally leading and trailing).
You can use trim() for that:
select 'x' || trim(both '\t' from trim(both ' ' from ' \t\tfoo bar ')) || 'x';
(for testing with 'x' around the result)
>
> I tried
>
> SELECT regexp_replace(myfield, '\A\s*', '')
> FROM mytable;
For regexp_replace() you need an extra parameter 'g' like below:
test=*# select 'x' || regexp_replace(regexp_replace(' \t\tfoo bar ', '^[ \t]+','','g'),'[ \t]+$','','g') || 'x';
^^^ ^^^
Andreas
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