Re: perlsub

Jeff Eckermann wrote:
> Perhaps if you could post a "real" example, you might
> get more useful help.

Here we go:

SELECT s('abc 123','([^ ]*) (.*)','$2 $1');

This regex should swaps 2 columns seperated by 1 space.

For the moment I harcoded my regex in a special function, but I would be
delighted if it would be possible (without the use of eval) to have
arbitrary regular expression search-replace.

I don't think we're getting off-topic as too many ppl have asked this
question already and always the answer has been: Use PL/Perl

cu
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