From: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
To: Nicholas I <nicholas.domnic.i@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: find and replace the string within a column
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:34:12 +0800
Message-ID: <4C9C8CB4.3070205@postnewspapers.com.au> (raw)
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On 24/09/2010 5:15 PM, Nicholas I wrote:
> Example:
> table name person:
>
> name
> ------------------------------------
> Samuel (S/o Sebastin )
> -------------------------------------
>
> remove the word within the brackets.
> the output should be , Samuel.
Can't you just regexp_replace, matching \([^)]+\) (in other words "an
open parenthisis, then a sequence of one or more of any character other
than a close parenthesis, followed by a close parentheis) and replacing
with an empty string ?
--
Craig Ringer
Tech-related writing at http://soapyfrogs.blogspot.com/
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