From: | Martín Marqués <martin(dot)marques(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: CHAR to INT |
Date: | 2008-07-12 14:01:17 |
Message-ID: | e73de96e0807120701g15208e70uc976cca7ba094dfe@mail.gmail.com |
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2008/7/12 Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Hello
>
> 2008/7/12 Martín Marqués <martin(dot)marques(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>> I'm trying to make a PL function to pass from an alphanumeric string
>> to a numeric one changing the chars in the string to it's ORD (the
>> inverse of the chr function) and I'm stumbling with two problems:
>>
>> 1) How to know if the CHAR is numeric or not.
>> 2) If it's not numeric I want to get it's ord, but I can't find
>> something like that in PG.
>>
> postgres=# select '1' between '0' and '9';
> ?column?
> ----------
> t
> (1 row)
>
> postgres=# select 'a' between '0' and '9';
> ?column?
> ----------
> f
> (1 row)
>
> postgres=# select ascii('7') - ascii('0');
> ?column?
> ----------
> 7
> (1 row)
>
Saw the ascii function when I had already sent the mail. :-(
Thanks any way.
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Martín Marqués
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