On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:36:26PM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > How can I remove characters that form a part of regular expressions? Why do you want to do that? > I would like to remove all instances of the following characters: > > [ > ] > \ > + test=> select id, t, regexp_replace(t, e'[\\\\[\\]+]', '', 'g') from foo; id | t | regexp_replace ----+------------+---------------- 1 | foo[]+\bar | foobar (1 row) test=> select id, t, translate(t, e'[]\\+', '') from foo; id | t | translate ----+------------+----------- 1 | foo[]+\bar | foobar (1 row) -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
