2008/7/12 Pavel Stehule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello
>
> 2008/7/12 Martín Marqués <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I'm trying to make a PL function to pass from an alphanumeric string
>> to a numeric one changing the chars in the string to it's ORD (the
>> inverse of the chr function) and I'm stumbling with two problems:
>>
>> 1) How to know if the CHAR is numeric or not.
>> 2) If it's not numeric I want to get it's ord, but I can't find
>> something like that in PG.
>>
> postgres=# select '1' between '0' and '9';
>  ?column?
> ----------
>  t
> (1 row)
>
> postgres=# select 'a' between '0' and '9';
>  ?column?
> ----------
>  f
> (1 row)
>
> postgres=# select ascii('7') - ascii('0');
>  ?column?
> ----------
>        7
> (1 row)
>

Saw the ascii function when I had already sent the mail. :-(

Thanks any way.

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Martín Marqués
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