Re: How to implement word wrap

Andrus <kobruleht2(at)hot(dot)ee> wrote:

> Database column contains large string without line feeds.
> How to split it with word wrap between words ?
> I tried to implement word wrap using
>
> create temp table test (line char(7));
> insert into test select repeat('aa ',10);
> select * from test;
>
> Expected result is that table test contains multiple rows and every row
> contains two words:
>
> aa aa
>
> Instead I got string too long exception.
>
> How to implement word wrap in PostgreSql if string contains words of any
> size separated by spaces?

I think you have to write a function (plpgsql, plperl, ...), counting
chars per line and change space to newline if no more space in the line.
That's not really a SQL-problem ...

Maybe there are some perl-modules for that available, i don't know.

Andreas
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