Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 04/24/07 21:58

Brian (b.houghtby@eaglecrusher.com) writes:
> How can I change a character in a string of text. I have a bunch number
> that have a lower case l in them and I need to make them an uppercase L.
> Example; 99l5555 needs to be 99L5555.

UPDATE tbl
SET col = replace(col, 'l', 'L')

Or if there other lowercase as well that should be uppercase:

UPDATE tbl SET col = upper(col)

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