From: | Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> |
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To: | Joshua <joshua(at)joshuaneil(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: yet another simple SQL question |
Date: | 2007-06-25 19:03:58 |
Message-ID: | 37E566AC-D304-4D52-920B-7FA61D7777FD@myemma.com |
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On Jun 25, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Joshua wrote:
> Ok,
>
> You guys must be getting sick of these newbie questions, but I
> can't resist since I am learning a lot from these email lists and
> getting results quick! Thanks to everyone for their contributions.
>
> Here is my questions....
>
> I have a column that looks like this
>
> firstname
> -----------------
> John B
> Mark A
> Jennifer D
>
> Basically I have the first name followed by a middle initial. Is
> there a quick command I can run to strip the middle initial?
> Basically, I just need to delete the middle initial so the column
> would then look like the following:
>
> firstname
> ---------------
> John
> Mark
> Jennifer
>
> Thanks again for all of your help today. Everything you guys have
> been sending has produced successful results.
>
Try something along the lines of:
SELECT substring(firstname from '^(\w*)\W') from table_name;
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