Excellent! I tried the global flag before but I had it in the wrong
place.
Thanks for the quick service, David!
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Susan E Hurst
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On 2015-11-10 14:19, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Susan Hurst
> <susan(dot)hurst(at)brookhurstdata(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> What is the trick for removing all instances of unwanted characters
>> and spaces?
>
> (g)lobal flag.
>
> SELECT regexp_replace('hello - world n', '[^0-9a-z]+', '', 'g')
> ;
>
> David J.