Re: [despammed] allowing ',' (comma) in float8

am 19.06.2005, um 9:23:54 +0200 mailte Andreas Kretschmer folgendes:
> am 12.06.2005, um 12:17:12 +0200 mailte stig erikson folgendes:
> > hi.
> > is it possible to use flort values with a comma as decimal placeholder?
> >
> > i am trying to use copy to insert a table, the table contains a few columns
> > with numerical values such as price, the vales are given on the format
> > "2345,12", postgresql seems to allow only "2345.12".
>
> You can pipe the input-file thru tools like sed ore awk and substitute
> ',' with '.'. This is simple.

A little example:
imagine, there is a input-file like this:
(cols separated with tabs)

,----
| kretschmer(at)kaufbach:~$ cat insert.sql
| bla 1,4
| blub 2,5
| bla,blub 5,2
`----

with 2 cols, the second are numerical with ','.

,----
| kretschmer(at)kaufbach:~$ awk 'BEGIN{FS="\t";OFS="\t"}{gsub(",",".",$2);print $0}' < insert.sql
| bla 1.4
| blub 2.5
| bla,blub 5.2
`----

now you have, what you need. The string in the first col contains a ',',
this is not converted.

Regards, Andreas
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