REPLACE part of string

Hi.
I have a string column in a DB where it's values contain the following midway through the string ([DOCUMENTGUID] is a uniqueidentifier that is different for each row):
<a href="../downloadDoc.aspx?dg=[DOCUMENTGUID]" target="_blank">
I would like to replace this part of the string with a different piece of text.
I know that I should be using PATINDEX and REPLACE functions but I don't know how to utilise.
How can I go about this please?
Thanks in advance.

Assuming the string you gave is consistent you can use this
SELECT STUFF(YourColumn,PATINDEX('%<a href="../downloadDoc.aspx?dg=%',YourCol),PATINDEX('%target="_blank">%',YourCol)- PATINDEX('%<a href="../downloadDoc.aspx?dg=%',YourCol) +1 ,'<your new text')
FROM table
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' ','-') "REGEXP_REPLACE"
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I thought the questions is answered.
Your code will not work, because the alternate expression applies only to the four digit year and the month.
If you want to recognize both date formats with one expressions, you have to group the complete expressions.
The disadvantage of this would be, that the backreferences would not work in the same way because you would have more groups.
I advice to use two separate regular expressions for this task.
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'(JAN|FEB|MAR|APR|JUN|JUL|AUG|SEP|OCT|NOV|DEC), ([0-9]{1,2}) ([0-9]{4})','\1-\2-\3',1,0,'i') regexp_replace
FROM yourtable;If you want same output-format for both date formats you could use this:
with yourtable as
select 'Daivd bought stuff by 2000 USD on 12 Sep 2012 from KL and left kl on 20 Sep 2012' text from dual union all
select 'Daivd bought stuff by 2000 USD on Sep, 20 2012 from KL and left kl on Sep, 20 2012' text from dual
SELECT
REGEXP_REPLACE(
REGEXP_REPLACE(text,
'([0-9]{1,2}) (JAN|FEB|MAR|APR|JUN|JUL|AUG|SEP|OCT|NOV|DEC) ([0-9]{4})','\1-\2-\3',1,0,'i'),
'(JAN|FEB|MAR|APR|JUN|JUL|AUG|SEP|OCT|NOV|DEC), ([0-9]{1,2}) ([0-9]{4})','\2-\1-\3',1,0,'i') regexp_replace
FROM yourtable;Edited by: hm on 25.09.2012 22:00

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