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From: Bart Degryse <Bart.Degryse@indicator.be>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Uppercase and Lowercase
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:48:41 +0100
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Of course it does. That's what you ask your query to do. You only used the wrong operator for string concatenation, which is why it didn't seem to work. But your query will not do this for each word in a field. For that you need a function or regular expressions. I suggest you try
select initcap(pa_indirizzo) from ..

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>>> "Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe" <shavonne.marietta@studioform.it> 2007-02-19 16:39 >>>
Hey thanks Bart. it worked ;) 
 
but sadly what it does is changes  "VIA SENATO" in to "Via senato" but what i need  is "Via Senato"
 
Anyoneeeeeee??
 
 
 
Shavonne Wijesinghe
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From: Bart Degryse ( mailto:Bart.Degryse@indicator.be ) 
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org 
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Uppercase and Lowercase

Replace && by ||

>>> "Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe" <shavonne.marietta@studioform.it> 2007-02-19 16:22 >>>
Hello
 
In my PostgreSQL database i have records inserted in Uppercase. 
For example: VIA SENATO
 
What i want is to change them to "Via Senato". Ofcourse i'm looking for a automatico way. I wrote this code update registro1 set pa_indirizzo = upper(substr(pa_indirizzo, 1, 1)) && lower(substr(pa_indirizzo, 2, length(pa_indirizzo) - 1)) But it doesn't work.
 
When i run only update registro1 set pa_indirizzo = upper(substr(pa_indirizzo, 1, 1)) It gets me the first letter and when i run
update registro1 set pa_indirizzo = lower(substr(pa_indirizzo, 2, length(pa_indirizzo) - 1)) I get from the second letter to the last. But when i join them them don't work..
 
 
Anyone got any idea??
 
Thanks
 
Shavonne Wijesinghe

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