On Jun 13, 9:02 am, sma...@xxxxxxxxxx (Steve Manes) wrote: > I apologize if I'm having a rookie brain block, but is there a way to > massage a string inside a proc to, for instance, strip it of all > non-alpha characters using a regular expression? regexp_replace() could work for you, see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-string.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-matching.html