On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:54, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a bit string , 7 bits, every bit representing a day of the week.
> e.g. 1110011.
> Is there and easy way where I can translate/format that string in a query.
> I want to give the string back with a '-' for every 0 and the first char
> of the Day for every '1'.
> example 1100111 = SM--TFS.
You probably want a small function in plpgsql - see the procedural languages
section of the manual for details. You might want to check the cookbook at
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ and see if there's similar code you can use
as inspiration.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd