On 08/23/2012 02:30 PM, Gauthier, Dave wrote:
> I want to create a string from the first 3 elements of a csv (for
> example). The csv is longer than 3 elements. Example...
>
> aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd,eee,fff,ggg
>
> I want the string "aaa,bbb,ccc".
select array_to_string
(
(
string_to_array
(
'aaa,bbb,ccc,ddd,eee,fff,ggg',','
)
)[1:3],','
);
array_to_string
-----------------
aaa,bbb,ccc
(1 row)
HTH,
Joe
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