Re: Plpgsql: Iterating through a string of parameters

On Thursday 25. March 2010 16.16.53 Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> I'm struggling with how to make plpgsql iterate through a list of numbers 
> input as a text string, eg. "1438 2656 973 4208". I figure that I can use the 
> regexp_split_to_array() function to make an array of the string, but can I 
> iterate through an array with eg. a FOR loop?

I found a solution myself through trial-and-error:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION text_to_arr(TEXT) RETURNS VOID AS $$
DECLARE   arr TEXT ARRAY;

BEGIN   arr := regexp_split_to_array($1, E'\\s+');   FOR i IN 1..array_length(arr, 1) LOOP       RAISE NOTICE '%',
arr[i]::INTEGER;  END LOOP;   RETURN;
 
END
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql IMMUTABLE;

pgslekt=> select * from text_to_arr('1438 2607 1504');
NOTICE:  1438
NOTICE:  2607
NOTICE:  1504text_to_arr
-------------

(1 row)

pgslekt=>

regards,
-- 
Leif Biberg Kristensen
http://solumslekt.org/