Just to add to the other good advice you've already received:<br><br>If the data are in the format with an actual slash, as a single string (not sure from your email), then string functions can help you get to the point where you can divide, or create geometry, if that's where you're at:<br>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-string.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-string.html</a><br><br>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Yamini Singh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yaminijsingh@live.com">yaminijsingh@live.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;margin-top:0.2in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.2in;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#666666">Hi All,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;margin-top:0.2in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.2in;margin-left:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#666666">I have a column 'geocode' in a table which has
attributes like 2329/4727 now I would like to convert these </span></b><b style="text-indent:0px !important"><span style="text-indent:0px !important;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">attributes </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#666666">in another
column to 'lat' and 'long'. For example, 'Lat' column will have </span></b><b style="text-indent:0px !important"><span style="text-indent:0px !important;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">attribute '</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#666666">23.29' and 'long' column will have </span></b><b style="text-indent:0px !important"><span style="text-indent:0px !important;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(102, 102, 102)">attribute </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#666666"> '47.27'.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.2in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0.2in;margin-left:0in"><b><font color="#666666" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="2">Is there a way through which this can be
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#666666">Looking fwd..Thanks</span></b></p>
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