Here is a Perl function a friend of mine wrote to help with this...
Problems I ran into were errors because of NON NUMERIC Characters in the
String...
Casting would fail
It doesn't catch all cases but it has been quite helpful to me
$x = $_[0];
$x =~ s/^[^-\d\.]*//;
$x =~ s/\,//g;
$x = $x * 1;
return $x;
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Godoy
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:52 PM
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Returning String as Integer
Em Sexta 05 Maio 2006 18:37, Kashmira Patel (kupatel) escreveu:
> Hi all,
> I have a table with a column of type 'text'. It mainly contains
> numbers. Is there any way to select a value from this column and
return
> it as an integer?
testing=# select '123'::integer;int4
------ 123
(1 registro)
testing=#
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Jorge Godoy <jgodoy@gmail.com>
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