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From: Jeff Ross <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Removing terminal period from varchar string in table column
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:43:17 -0600
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On 7/15/25 11:30, Rich Shepard wrote:

> I want to remove the terminal period '.' from the varchar strings in the
> 'company_name' column in all rows with that period in the companies 
> table.
>
> I've looked at trim(), translate(), "substr(company_name 1,
> length(compan_name) - 1)", and a couple of other functions and am 
> unsure how
> best to do this without corrupting the database table.
>
> Advice needed.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
>
>
How about

test:

     select company_name, replace(company_name,'.','') from companies;

update:

     update companies set company_name = replace(company_name,'.','') 
where company_name like '%.';

?

Jeff

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