Re: select substr???

Hi,

I have postgres 6.x (where x is something).

I have the following list of data

data
--------
ABC*
ABC
ABC-
ABC+
ABC
QWE~
ASD+
ASD#
KLASDHK-
KLASDHK+
KLASDHK
KLASDHK*


what I want to do is 'select distinct(data) [ignoring non alphanumeric
characters] order by data'

is there a way to do that? Changing the data stored in the table is not an
option as the suffixes are needed elsewhere..

Please help !!

Thanks,
Tim.