Excellent! I tried the global flag before but I had it in the wrong place.

Thanks for the quick service, David!

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Susan E Hurst
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Email: susan.hu...@brookhurstdata.com
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On 2015-11-10 14:19, David G. Johnston wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Susan Hurst
<susan.hu...@brookhurstdata.com> wrote:

What is the trick for removing all instances of unwanted characters
and spaces?

​(g)lobal flag.

SELECT regexp_replace('hello - world n', '[^0-9a-z]+', '', 'g')
​;

David J.​


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