On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:59:16PM -0700, CSN wrote: > Basically remove all characters that aren't > [A-Za-z0-9], -, or ., and replace all spaces with > hyphens. Possible? The only string function that > supports regular expressions is substring and I > couldn't make that do what I want. This should be trivial with plperl ... I'd think you are wasting your time trying to do it with plpgsql or SQL; this is what Postgres flexibility is for! -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Ni aun el genio muy grande llegaría muy lejos si tuviera que sacarlo todo de su propio interior" (Goethe) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings