| From: | Ben Chobot <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com> |
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| To: | emilu(at)encs(dot)concordia(dot)ca |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org >> \"pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org\"" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Simple method to format a string? |
| Date: | 2012-06-20 17:43:25 |
| Message-ID: | A9E5D1E6-EF82-4F80-A469-3900D4C17807@silentmedia.com |
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On Jun 20, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Emi Lu wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> Is there a simply method in psql to format a string?
>
> For example, adding a space to every three consecutive letters:
>
> abcdefgh -> *** *** ***
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Emi
I'm unaware of such a function (it seems like a generic format() function's arguments would be so complex as to be almost unusable) but you can make use of locales to do some formatting for you. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/locale.html.
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