Re: Replacing characters in a string

2010/9/14 Luís de Sousa <luis(dot)a(dot)de(dot)sousa(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I need to replace all occurrences of a certain character in a string.
> For that I'm using regexp_replace, but so far I only managed to
> replace the first character, here's an example:
>
>> SELECT regexp_replace('xaxx', 'x', 'e');
>  regexp_replace
> ----------------
>  eaxx
> (1 row)
>
> But the result I'd need is 'eaee'. How can I do it?

Just remove the "regexp" bit:

SELECT replace('xaxx', 'x', 'e');

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