From: Ragnar <gnari@hive.is>
To: Joshua <joshua@joshuaneil.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: yet another simple SQL question
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:33:14 +0000
Message-ID: <1182796394.5953.294.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467FFEF9.5050603@joshuaneil.com>
References: <467FFEF9.5050603@joshuaneil.com>
On mán, 2007-06-25 at 12:44 -0500, Joshua wrote:
> I have a column that looks like this
>
> firstname
> -----------------
> John B
> Mark A
> Jennifer D
>
> Basically I have the first name followed by a middle initial. Is there a
> quick command I can run to strip the middle initial?
how about:
select regexp_replace(firstname,' .*','') as firstname
from footable;
or:
select substring(firstname FROM '(.*) ') as firstname
from footable;
gnari
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