Thanks !Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Offhand I can't think of a way to do what you want with regexp_replace()but you could use PL/Perl. Something like this should work:CREATE FUNCTION mcfix(text) RETURNS text AS $$ $_[0] =~ s/\bMc([a-z])/Mc\u$1/g; return $_[0];$$ LANGUAGE plperl IMMUTA
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:31:12PM -0700, chester c young wrote:
> column name in table bue has miscapitalized Mc names, eg, 'John Mcneil'
> instead of 'John McNeil'.
>
> (this should be easy but) how do you construct the update query?
>
> also, regexp_string( 'Mcneil', 'Mc(.*)', initcap('\\1') )
