Re: Funtion to clean up strings?

On Tuesday 17 Feb 2009, Andreas wrote:
> [snip]
> case
> when regexp_replace(p, E'[^0-9+]', '', 'g') ~ E'^(\\+|00)49'
> then '0'||
> regexp_replace(
> regexp_replace(
> regexp_replace(p, E'[^0-9+()]', '', 'g')
> , '\\(0\\)||\\(||\\)', '', 'g')
> , E'^(?:\\+|00)49(.*)', E'\\1')
> when regexp_replace(p, E'[^0-9+]', '', 'g') ~ E'^(\\+|00)'
> then '+'||
> regexp_replace(
> regexp_replace(
> regexp_replace(p, E'[^0-9+()]', '', 'g')
> , '\\(0\\)||\\(||\\)', '', 'g')
> , E'^(?:\\+||00)(.*)', E'\\1')
> else
> regexp_replace(p, E'[^0-9]', '', 'g')
> end
>
> That would catch the leading spaces in " 00 49 ( 0 ) 1 2 3 456 -0",
> too. Creating a sql-function thows a WARNING: nonstandard use of \\
> in a string literal
> but it still works. Do you know a better or more correct way to reach
> the same?
>
> Perhaps one could find a way with less calls to regexp_replace ?

That is what I would have tried too :) The only improvement I can think
of is to replace one instance of regex_replace with a string replace,
since the string (0) is fixed.

On the other hand, I'm not an expert at Pg functions by any means, so
someone else may have a faster or more elegant solution.

Regards,

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