From: chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
Cc: sql pgsql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: regexp_replace usage
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:15:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20061002151503.88141.qmail@web54309.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061002035609.GA42444@winnie.fuhr.org>
Thanks !
Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:Offhand I can't think of a way to do what you want with regexp_replace()
but you could use PL/Perl. Something like this should work:
CREATE FUNCTION mcfix(text) RETURNS text AS $$
$_[0] =~ s/\bMc([a-z])/Mc\u$1/g;
return $_[0];
$$ LANGUAGE plperl IMMUTABLE STRICT;
SELECT mcfix('John Mcneil');
mcfix
-------------
John McNeil
(1 row)
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