Check out UPPER() and LOWER() functions these will help you
i.e. upper(canada)
CANADA
i.e. lower(CAnada)
canada
i.e. initcap(canada)
Canada
HTH
Darren Ferguson
On 8 Mar 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Enrique Ariz�n Benito wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to modify text fields in an "automatic" way so to be able
> for example, to change any 'Canada' substring occurrence with the
> UPPER CASE equivalent "CANADA", with the added option 'Canada'
> appearing anywhere inside the text field.
> While it is very easy to find matching registers by using regular
> expresions, (SELECT * from my_table where my_columm ~* 'canada'; in
> previous example) I find no way to change them afterwards, but
> manually updating each register.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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