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From: Reuven Abliyev <reuvenab@gmail.com>
To: Penchalaiah P. <penchalaiahp@infics.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Needs Query
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 09:00:25 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <20070508125854.GE19006@a-kretschmer.de>
References: <A70AE049E81A6A40879D5DC0AC8C38C908E71F76@venus.infics.com>
	<20070508125854.GE19006@a-kretschmer.de>

or if you want it in the one query:

>create table _t(f varchar(50));

select f, case when substr(f, length(f), 1)= substr(f, length(f)-1, 1) then
regexp_replace(f, substr(f, length(f), 1)||'+$', substr(f, length(f), 1))
else f end from _t where length(f)>1;




On 5/8/07, A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com> wrote:
>
> am  Tue, dem 08.05.2007, um 17:48:47 +0530 mailte Penchalaiah P.
> folgendes:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In a table, a column contains
> >
> >
> >
> > Suneelllllllllllllll
> >
> > Sudhakarrrrrrrrrr
> >
> > Vivekkkkkkkkkk
> >
> > Ramanaaaaaaaaa
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > But my output is
> >
> > Suneel
> >
> > Sudhakar
> >
> > Vivek
> >
> > Ramana
> >
> >  I want a query to get my output like above??..
>
> write a stored proc. within this proc: (oversimplified)
>
> - calculate the length of the string with length() -> length
> - extract substring(string, length, length) -> last_char
> - regexp_replace(string, last_char||'*$', last_char)
>
>
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