Re: Stripping a prefix

From: Michael Blakeley <mike(at)blakeley(dot)com>
To: Bruce Guenter <bruceg(at)em(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Stripping a prefix
Date: 2000-08-26 18:25:42
Message-ID: p05000e0bb5cdbbe708df@blakeley.com
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> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:35:43 -0600
> From: Bruce Guenter <bruceg(at)em(dot)ca>
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Stripping a prefix
>
> Is there a function available to strip a string from the start of a
> string? trim and ltrim can strip any occurrence of a set of characters
> from the start of a string, but I want to be able to strip an exact
> string. In particular, if the string starts with "www." (including the
> dot), then it should be stripped.

trim(leading 'www.' from foo)

-- Mike

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