Ow Mun Heng wrote: >>> Input is of form >>> >>> 'ppp','aaa','bbb' >>> >>> I want it to be stripped of quotes to become >>> >>> ppp,aaa,bbb >> >> I'm a little confused that you think that you will have to >> escape single quotes in the input. >> What is your use case? Normally the input is in some variable >> in some programming language. >> Escaping single quotes is only for string literals. > > The input is for an SRF which accepts an array.. > > eg: > select * from foo(date1,date2,'{aaa,bbb,ccc}') > > where the function goes.. > create function foo(timestamp, timestamp, foo_list text[]) > returns setof > ... Yes, but where does '{aaa,bbb,ccc}' come from? I assume that this string literal is only an example that you use to describe how the function is called. In reality you will have varying values for the foo_list function argument. So you'll store it in some kind of variable, right? In which programming language do you write? Yours, Laurenz Albe ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/