From: Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Help with regexp-query
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:20:21 +0200
Message-ID: <20110728112021.GA31921@sun.ac.za> (raw)
I am struggling a bit to do the following type of update in a table.
I want the content of a field updated like this:
Original:
'||||0894396e-16bf-4e63-aa52-97fe7031eec9||50a6b47c-f69c-414d-bcb6-14bbe403de5f|||'
After update:
'|0894396e-16bf-4e63-aa52-97fe7031eec9|50a6b47c-f69c-414d-bcb6-14bbe403de5f|'
in other words: change all multiple adjacent occurences of '|' to only 1.
I have tried the following query but it fails:
select id, regexp_replace(category, (E'\|{2,}'), E'\|') as category from
akb_articles limit 100
This ends with 'ERROR: invalid regular expression: quantifier operand
invalid'.
I would apreciate some help with this one please.
Regards
Johann
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Databestuurder / Data manager
Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie
Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology
Universiteit Stellenbosch.
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