Question

I have a column in the data base that stores the data like

//item
//item//item3
//text
//item//item3//item 10

Is there a way to select this as

/item
/item/item3
/text
//item/item3/item10

*note the spaces are removed.

Thank you in advanced?

Answer 1

From your example, I assume that you want to replace the double slashes with single slashes, and remove spaces that are not in front of a slash. (And that the double slash that is not replaced is a mistake.)

You can use replaces to do that:

replace(replace(replace(replace(col, '//', '/'), ' /', '//'), ' ', ''), '//', ' /')

Note: This won’t work properly if you have /// somewhere in the data.