Re: [Q] parsing out String array

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 05:55:08AM -0400, toreason(at)fastmail(dot)fm wrote:
> Thank you for your recommendation
> I was able to get this to work
>
> select ('{{A,B,C},{D,E,F}}'::text[][])[i][j] from
> generate_series(1, array_upper('{{A,B,C},{D,E,F}}'::text[][], 1)) i
> cross join
> generate_series(1, array_upper('{{A,B,C},{D,E,F}}'::text[][], 2)) j

I've just noticed that you mentioned using 8.4 previously; there's a new
function called unnest in 8.4 that does the above. In your example it
would be:

SELECT unnest('{{A,B,C},{D,E,F}}'::text[]);

and you'd get back your six rows. It appears to do the correct thing
with arrays of higher dimensionality to me, but I only tried up to five.

--
Sam http://samason.me.uk/