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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:16:25 -0500
From: Emi Lu <emilu@encs.concordia.ca>
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To: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
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Subject: Re: Split a string to rows?
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Thanks a lot! I just noticed that my postgresql is 8.3(unnest function 
is not there by default). Is there a way that I could download and load 
only this function from somewhere?

Thanks again!
Emi


On 01/07/2013 02:58 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Emi Lu wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a function to split a string to different rows?
>>
>> For example, t1(id, col1)
>> values(1, 'a, b, c');
>>
>> select id, string_split_to_row(col1, ',');
>>
>> Return:
>> =========
>> 1, a
>> 1, b
>> 1, c
>
>
> You can probably use some combination of "string_to_array" and "unnest"
>
> e.g.
>
> SELECT unnest(string_to_array('a,b,c', ','));
>
>   unnest
> --------
>   a
>   b
>   c
> (3 rows)
>
> If you need a more complex string splitting mechanism, there is the "regexp_split_to_array" function.
>
> Jonathan
>


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