I'm trying to get first string after a character.
Example is like
ABCDEF||GHJ||WERT
I need only
GHJ
I tried to use REGEXP but i couldnt do it.
Can anyone help me with please?
Thank you
Somewhat simpler:
SQL> select regexp_substr('ABCDEF||GHJ||WERT', '\w+', 1, 2) result from dual;
^
RES |
--- give me the 2nd "word"
GHJ
SQL>
which reads as: give me the 2nd word out of that string. Won't work properly if GHJ consists of several words (but that's not what your example suggests).
Something like I interpret with a separator in place, In this case it is || or | example is with oracle database
-- pattern -- > [^] represents non-matching character and + for says one or more character followed by ||
-- 3rd parameter --> starting position
-- 4th parameter --> nth occurrence
WITH tbl(str) AS
(SELECT 'ABCDEF||GHJ||WERT' str FROM dual)
SELECT regexp_substr(str
,'[^||]+'
,1
,2) output
FROM tbl;
I think the most general solution is:
WITH tbl(str) AS (
SELECT 'ABCDEF||GHJ||WERT' str FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 'ABC|DEF||GHJ||WERT' str FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 'ABClDEF||GHJ||WERT' str FROM dual
)
SELECT regexp_replace(str, '^.*\|\|(.*)\|\|.*', '\1')
FROM tbl;
Note that this works even if the individual elements contain punctuation or a single vertical bar -- which the other solutions do not. Here is a comparison.
Presumably, the double vertical bar is being used for maximum flexibility.
You should use regexp_substr function
select regexp_substr('ABCDEF||GHJ||WERT ', '\|{2}([^|]+)', 1, 1, 'i', 1) str
from dual;
STR
---
GHJ
Related
135 ;1111776698 ;AB555678765
I have the above string and what I am looking for is to retrieve all the digits before the first occurrence of ;.
But the number of characters before the first occurrence of ; varies i.e. it may be a 4 digit number or 3 digit number.
I have played with regex_instr and instr, but I unable to figure this out.
The query should return all the digits before the first occurrence of ;
This answer assumes that you are using Oracle database. I don't know of way to do this using REGEX_INSTR alone, but we can do with REGEXP_REPLACE using capture groups:
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('135 ;1111776698 ;AB555678765', '^\s*(\d{3,4})\s*;.*', '\1')
FROM dual;
Demo
Here is the regex pattern being used:
^\s*(\d{3,4})\s*;.*
This allows, from the start of the string, any amount of leading whitespace, followed by a 3 or 4 digit number, followed again by any amount of whitespace, then a semicolon. The .* at the end of the pattern just consumes whatever remains in your string. Note (\d{3,4}), which captures the 3-4 digit number, which is then available in the replacement as \1.
Using INSTR,SUBTSR and TRIM should work ( based on your comment that there are "just white spaces and digits" )
select TRIM(SUBSTR(s,1, INSTR(s,';')-1)) FROM t;
Demo
The following using regexp_substr() should work:
SELECT s, REGEXP_SUBSTR(s, '^[^;]*')
Make sure you try all possible values in that first position, even those you don't expect and make sure they are handled as you want them to be. Always expect the unexpected! This regex matches the first subgroup of zero or more optional digits (allows a NULL to be returned) when followed by an optional space then a semi-colon, or the end of the line. You may need to tighten (or loosen) up the matching rules for your situation, just make sure to test even for incorrect values, especially if the input comes from user-entered data.
with tbl(id, str) as (
select 1, '135 ;1111776698 ;AB555678765' from dual union all
select 2, ' 135 ;1111776698 ;AB555678765' from dual union all
select 3, '135;1111776698 ;AB555678765' from dual union all
select 4, ';1111776698 ;AB555678765' from dual union all
select 5, ';135 ;1111776698 ;AB555678765' from dual union all
select 6, ';;1111776698 ;AB555678765' from dual union all
select 7, 'xx135 ;1111776698 ;AB555678765' from dual union all
select 8, '135;1111776698 ;AB555678765' from dual union all
select 9, '135xx;1111776698 ;AB555678765' from dual
)
select id, regexp_substr(str, '(\d*?)( ?;|$)', 1, 1, NULL, 1) element_1
from tbl
order by id;
ID ELEMENT_1
---------- ------------------------------
1 135
2 135
3 135
4
5
6
7 135
8 135
9
9 rows selected.
To get the desired result, you should use REGEX_SUBSTR as it will substring your desired data from the string you give. Here is the example of the Query.
Solution to your example data:
SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR('135 ;1111776698 ;AB555678765','[^;]+',1,1) FROM DUAL;
So what it does, Regex splits the string on the basis of ; separator. You needed the first occurrence so I gave arguments as 1,1.
So if you need the second string 1111776698 as your output you can give an argument as 1,2.
The syntax for Regexp_substr is as following:
REGEXP_SUBSTR( string, pattern [, start_position [, nth_appearance [, match_parameter [, sub_expression ] ] ] ] )
Here is the link for more examples:
https://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/regexp_substr.php
Let me know if this works for you. Best luck.
How can we convert a string of any length into a comma separated string with comma after every n characters. I am using Oracle 10g and above. I tried with REGEXP_SUBSTR but couldn't get desired result.
e.g.: for below string comma after every 5 characters.
input:
aaaaabbbbbcccccdddddeeeeefffff
output:
aaaaa,bbbbb,ccccc,ddddd,eeeee,fffff,
or
aaaaa,bbbbb,ccccc,ddddd,eeeee,fffff
Thanks in advance.
This can be done with regexp_replace, like so:
WITH sample_data AS (SELECT 'aaaaabbbbbcccccdddddeeeeefffff' str FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 'aaaa' str FROM dual UNION ALL
SELECT 'aaaaabb' str FROM dual)
SELECT str,
regexp_replace(str, '(.{5})', '\1,')
FROM sample_data;
STR REGEXP_REPLACE(STR,'(.{5})','\
------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
aaaaabbbbbcccccdddddeeeeefffff aaaaa,bbbbb,ccccc,ddddd,eeeee,fffff,
aaaa aaaa
aaaaabb aaaaa,bb
The regexp_replace simply looks for any 5 characters (.{5}), and then replaces them with the same 5 characters plus a comma. The brackets around the .{5} turn it into a labelled subexpression - \1, since it's the first set of brackets - which we can then use to represent our 5 characters in the replacement section.
You would then need to trim the extra comma off the resultant string, if necessary.
SELECT RTRIM ( REGEXP_REPLACE('aaaaabbbbbcccccdddddeeeeefffff', '(.{5})' ,'\1,') ,',') replaced
FROM DUAL;
This worked for me:
WITH strlen AS
(
SELECT 'aaaaabbbbbcccccdddddeeeeefffffggggg' AS input,
LENGTH('aaaaabbbbbcccccdddddeeeeefffffggggg') AS LEN,
5 AS part
FROM dual
)
,
pattern AS
(
SELECT regexp_substr(strlen.input, '[[:alnum:]]{5}', 1, LEVEL)
||',' AS line
FROM strlen,
dual
CONNECT BY LEVEL <= strlen.len / strlen.part
)
SELECT rtrim(listagg(line, '') WITHIN GROUP (
ORDER BY 1), ',') AS big_bang$
FROM pattern ;
Getting Examples from similar Stack Overflow threads,
Remove all characters after a specific character in PL/SQL
and
How to Select a substring in Oracle SQL up to a specific character?
I would want to retrieve only the first characters before the occurrence of a string.
Example:
STRING_EXAMPLE
TREE_OF_APPLES
The Resulting Data set should only show only STRING_EXAM and TREE_OF_AP because PLE is my delimiter
Whenever i use the below REGEXP_SUBSTR, It gets only STRING_ because REGEXP_SUBSTR treats PLE as separate expressions (P, L and E), not as a single expression (PLE).
SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR('STRING_EXAMPLE','[^PLE]+',1,1) from dual;
How can i do this without using numerous INSTRs and SUBSTRs?
Thank you.
The problem with your query is that if you use [^PLE] it would match any characters other than P or L or E. You are looking for an occurence of PLE consecutively. So, use
select REGEXP_SUBSTR(colname,'(.+)PLE',1,1,null,1)
from tablename
This returns the substring up to the last occurrence of PLE in the string.
If the string contains multiple instances of PLE and only the substring up to the first occurrence needs to be extracted, use
select REGEXP_SUBSTR(colname,'(.+?)PLE',1,1,null,1)
from tablename
Why use regular expressions for this?
select substr(colname, 1, instr(colname, 'PLE')-1) from...
would be more efficient.
with
inputs( colname ) as (
select 'FIRST_EXAMPLE' from dual union all
select 'IMPLEMENTATION' from dual union all
select 'PARIS' from dual union all
select 'PLEONASM' from dual
)
select colname, substr(colname, 1, instr(colname, 'PLE')-1) as result
from inputs
;
COLNAME RESULT
-------------- ----------
FIRST_EXAMPLE FIRST_EXAM
IMPLEMENTATION IM
PARIS
PLEONASM
I have to select only the IDs which have only even digits (an ID looks like: p19 ,p20 etc). That is, p20 is good (both 2 and 0 are even digits); p18 is not.
I thought to use substr to get each number from the IDs and then see if it's even .
select from profs
where to_number(substr(id_prof,2,2))%2=0 and to_number(substr(id_prof,3,2))%2=0;
IF you need all rows consist of 'p' in beginning and even digits on tail It should look like:
select *
from profs
where regexp_like (id_prof, '^p[24680]+$');
with
profs ( prof_id ) as (
select 'p18' from dual union all
select 'p24' from dual union all
select 'p53' from dual
)
-- End of test data; what is above this line is NOT part of the solution.
-- The solution (SQL query) begins here.
select *
from profs
where length(prof_id) = length(translate(prof_id, '013579', '0'));
PROF_ID
-------
p24
This solution should work faster than anything using regular expressions. All it does is to replace 0 with itself and DELETE all odd digits from the input string. (The '0' is included due to a strange but documented behavior of translate() - the third argument can't be empty). If the length of the input string doesn't change after the translation, that means the input string didn't have any odd digits.
where mod(to_number(regexp_replace(id_prof, '[^[:digit:]]', '')),2) = 0
I need to insert character string after each character in Oracle SQL.
Example:
ABC will A,B,C
DEFG will be D,E,F,G
This question gives only one character in string
Oracle insert character into a string
Edit: As some fellows have mentioned, Oracle does not admit this regex. So my approach would be to do a regex to match all characters, add them a comma after the character and then removing the last comma.
WITH regex AS (SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('ABC', '(.)', '\1,') as reg FROM dual) SELECT SUBSTR(reg, 1, length(reg)-1) FROM regex;
Note that with the solution of rtrim there could be errors if the string you want to parse has a final ending comma and you don't want to remove it.
Previous solution: (Not working on Oracle)
Check if this does the trick:
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('ABC', '(.)(?!$)', '\1,') FROM dual;
It does a regexp_replace of every character, but the last one for the same character followed by a ,
To see how regexp_replace works I recommend you: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions130.htm
SELECT rtrim(REGEXP_REPLACE('ABC', '(.)', '\1,'),',') "REGEXP_REPLACE" FROM dual;
You could do it using:
REGEXP_REPLACE
RTRIM
For example,
SQL> WITH sample_data AS(
2 SELECT 'ABC' str FROM dual UNION ALL
3 SELECT 'DEFG' str FROM dual UNION ALL
4 SELECT 'XYZ' str FROM dual
5 )
6 -- end of sample_data mimicking a real table
7 SELECT str,
8 rtrim(regexp_replace(str, '(\w?)', '\1,'),',') new_str
9 FROM sample_data;
STR NEW_STR
---- ----------
ABC A,B,C
DEFG D,E,F,G
XYZ X,Y,Z
Since there is no way to negate the end of string in an Oracle regex (that does not support lookarounds), you may use
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE(
REGEXP_REPLACE('ABC', '([^,])([^,])','\1,\2'),
'([^,])([^,])',
'\1,\2')
AS Result from dual
See the DB Fiddle. The point here is to use REGEXP_REPLACE with ([^,])([^,]) pattern twice to cater for consecutive matches.
The ([^,])([^,]) pattern matches any non-comma char into Group 1 (\1) and then any non-comma char into Group 2 (\2), and inserts a comma in between them.