Re: regexp replace?

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:59:16PM -0700, CSN wrote:

> Basically remove all characters that aren't
> [A-Za-z0-9], -, or ., and replace all spaces with
> hyphens. Possible? The only string function that
> supports regular expressions is substring and I
> couldn't make that do what I want.

This should be trivial with plperl ... I'd think you are wasting your
time trying to do it with plpgsql or SQL; this is what Postgres
flexibility is for!

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