From: Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Fernando Hevia <fhevia@ip-tel.com.ar>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: trim(both) problem?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:19:03 -0400
Message-ID: <4815CEC7.4060405@encs.concordia.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <751.1209158787@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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<751.1209158787@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thanks a lot for all help! I understand how trim work now.
>> You could probably use instead:
>> select replace('<BR/>ROI Engineering Inc.', '<BR/>', '')
> That would zap occurrences in the middle of the string, though.
> regexp_replace would be better since it'd allow anchoring the
> pattern, eg
>
> select regexp_replace('<BR/>ROI Engineering Inc.', '^<BR/>', '');
> select regexp_replace('ROI Engineering Inc.<BR/>', '<BR/>$', '');
This is exactly I am looking for, but my version
PostgreSQL 8.0.15 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.2
does not support this func, and have to think about the other way to
'trim' the ^<BR/> & <BR>$
Thank you again!
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