On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:54, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit string , 7 bits, every bit representing a day of the week. > e.g. 1110011. > Is there and easy way where I can translate/format that string in a query. > I want to give the string back with a '-' for every 0 and the first char > of the Day for every '1'. > example 1100111 = SM--TFS.
You probably want a small function in plpgsql - see the procedural languages section of the manual for details. You might want to check the cookbook at http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ and see if there's similar code you can use as inspiration. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
