On 25/09/2007, Michael Fuhr <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > How can I remove characters that form a part of regular expressions? > > Why do you want to do that? Because these values were inserted into the DB due to a faulty application. So cleansing was called for. I just ended up doing it with replace instead of regexp_replace, one character at a time. Thanks! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match