| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: regexp replace? |
| Date: | 2004-05-06 21:19:26 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0405061518550.5920-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Thu, 6 May 2004, CSN wrote:
> I'd like to create a function that will take strings
> like:
>
> abcdef 'quote1' "quote2" / xyz etc.
>
> and return:
>
> abcdef-quote1-quote2-xyz-etc.
>
> Basically remove all characters that aren't
> [A-Za-z0-9], -, or ., and replace all spaces with
> hyphens. Possible? The only string function that
> supports regular expressions is substring and I
> couldn't make that do what I want.
I think translate may be able to do what you want pretty handily. May
take two passes, i.e. a subselect.
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