Re: search and replace possible on SQL?

Hello Bruno,

try the following:

UPDATE journal
SET description = 'Add '||description
WHERE description LIKE '%PSF%;

Is this what you wanted?

Best regards, Jens Hartwig

Bruno Boettcher schrieb:
>
> hello,
>
> again fiddling around with SQL...
> wanted to loop over the Base search for Strings beginning with a
> sequence and replace that sequence with another one.....
>
> tryed the following:
> update journal set description='Add '||(select id description from
> journal subq where subq.description like '%PSF%').description where id=
> subq.id;
>
> but evidently it didn't parsed :D
>
> so the questions are:
>
> can i make somehow a subquery and reuse the colums ? the system tryed
> above doesnt seem satisfying .....
>
> is there a way to achieve above functionality, or do i have to write a
> frontend to make this?
>
> in fact what i want to do using perl syntax:
> $temp="Add ".$1 if /(PSF.*)$/;
>
> --
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