Re: trim(both) problem?

"Fernando Hevia" <fhevia(at)ip-tel(dot)com(dot)ar> writes:
>> Trim doesn't do what you think it does. The '<BR/>' in the
>> above is not a string to remove it is a list of characters to
>> remove. Thus, the R is removed as it matches a character given.

> You could probably use instead:

> select replace('<BR/>ROI Engineering Inc.', '<BR/>', '')

That would zap occurrences in the middle of the string, though.
regexp_replace would be better since it'd allow anchoring the
pattern, eg

select regexp_replace('<BR/>ROI Engineering Inc.', '^<BR/>', '');
select regexp_replace('ROI Engineering Inc.<BR/>', '<BR/>$', '');

regards, tom lane