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Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string [message #61749 is a reply to message #61746]

Tue, 29 July 2008 08:43

Craig Markwardt
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David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> writes:
> Craig Markwardt writes:
>
>> It's a pity there isn't a STREPLACE() which
>> handles regular expressions.
>
> If I am not mistaken, Mike Galloy has a version
> called STR_REPLACE that handles regular expressions.
> I found it with his white paper on regular expressions
> (a must read, by the way). Don't have a link, but
> certainly it can be found on Mike's web page:
>
> http://www.michaelgalloy.com/

It looks nice. But what I should have said was, it's a pity there
isn't a *NATIVE* version of STREPLACE() which handles regular
expressions. All of the string replacement functions do lots of
slicing and dicing of the string, which Wayne is already quite capable
of :-)

Craig

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		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: humanumbrella on Tue, 29 July 2008 09:09
		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 29 July 2008 08:43
		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: wlandsman on Tue, 29 July 2008 08:40
		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 29 July 2008 08:37
		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: humanumbrella on Tue, 29 July 2008 08:33
		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: David Fanning on Tue, 29 July 2008 08:27
		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: Bob[3] on Tue, 29 July 2008 08:16
		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: humanumbrella on Tue, 29 July 2008 05:45
		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: Jeremy Bailin on Tue, 29 July 2008 04:26
		Re: Removing some but not all spaces in a string By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 28 July 2008 19:41

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