Re: Find and replace

> On Sep 11, 2019, at 2:24 PM, Campbell, Lance <lance(at)illinois(dot)edu> wrote:
>
> PostgreSQL 10.x
>
> I don’t know the best way to do this. I need to do a find and replace in text fields. The value I need to find and replace may occur more than once in each field per record.
>
> The value I am trying to match on:
> Starts with a single { .
> Ends with a single } .
> In between these brackets can be the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, hyphens and underscores. But no spaces. These characters could be in any order.
> The replacement value on a match is the same as what was found except for double {{ at the beginning and double }} at the end. Same values between the brackets as what was matched on.
>
> Example:
> {ab_1D3-4} becomes {{ab_1D3-4}}
>
> Thanks for helping me with this.
>
> Lance Campbell
> University of Illinois

Are there curly braces which don’t start/end such strings? If not it might be easier to just double them up?