Get string until character Oracle SQL - sql

How to get string before character?
I need to get string before ; in Oracle SQL.
For example:
147739 - Blablabla ; Blublublu
Needed output:
147739 - Blablabla
My code so far:
SELECT
UPPER(CONVERT(REGEXP_REPLACE(SUBSTR(HISTORICO, INSTR(HISTORICO, 'Doc') + 4), 'S/A', 'SA'), 'US7ASCII'))
FROM
GEQ_GL_CONC_CONTABIL_FRETES_V
WHERE
periodo = '$Periodo$' AND livro = 'ESMALTEC_FISCAL'
I want the whole string up to ;


We can use a combination of SUBSTR and INSTR to achieve this;
SELECT SUBSTR(FIELD_NAME,1,INSTR(FIELD_NAME,';', 1, 1)-1) FROM TABLE_NAME;
The first argument to SUBSTR is the position in the field value from which we want to start (1 = at the beginning), the second argument is the length of the substring we want to read, here it is synonymous with the position of ';' -1.
The third and fourth arguments to INSTR are where to start searching for ';' and the count we are interested in. In our example that is from the beginning (1) and the first occurence (again 1).


You could try using substr() and instr()
select SUBSTR(my_col, 0, INSTR(my_col, ';')-1)
from my_table
select SUBSTR(' Blablabla ; Blublublu', 0, INSTR('A Blablabla ; Blublublu', ';')-1)
from dual


A few alternatives using REGEXP
The result with each solution depends of how uniform your data is
WITH tbl
AS (
SELECT '147739 - Blablabla ; Blublublu' str
FROM DUAL
)
SELECT TRIM(REGEXP_SUBSTR(str, '([[:alnum:]]|-| )*')) AS SOLUTION_1
, REGEXP_SUBSTR(str, '[[:digit:]]*( )?(-)?( )?[[:alpha:]]*') AS SOLUTION_2
, REGEXP_SUBSTR(str, '[[:digit:]]*( |-)*[[:alpha:]]*') AS SOLUTION_3
FROM tbl;

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How to get first string after character Oracle SQL

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

Get the data from a string between double quotes in Oracle

I have a string with double quotes inside.
EG:
<cosmtio :ff "intermit"ksks>
I need the data between the ""
I have tried the regexp_substr but still couldn't get the value between double-quotes.

We could try using REGEXP_REPLACE here:
SELECT
string,
REGEXP_REPLACE(string, '.*"([^"]+)".*', '\1') AS quoted_term
FROM yourTable;
Data:
WITH yourTable AS (
SELECT '<cosmtio :ff "intermit"ksks>' AS string FROM dual
)
Demo
Another option, using REGEXP_SUBSTR:
SELECT
string,
TRIM(BOTH '"' FROM REGEXP_SUBSTR(string, '".*"'))
FROM yourTable;
But this approach requires nesting two function calls, which means it might not outperform the REGEXP_REPLACE version.

You need to use REGEXP_SUBSTR:
SELECT REGEXP_SUBSTR('<cosmtio :ff "intermit"ksks>', '"([^"]+)"', 1, 1, NULL, 1) AS Result FROM DUAL
See the online demo.
The regex is simple: "([^"]+)" matches ", then captures any 1+ chars other than " into Group 1 and then matches ". The last argument is 1 telling Oracle REGEXP_SUBSTR to return the Group 1 values. The first (position) and the second (occurrence) arguments are default, 1. NULL means no specific options need to be passed to the regex engine.

You can try the following:
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('<cosmtio :ff "intermit"ksks>', '^[^"]*("([^"]*)")?.*', '\2') FROM dual

It is possible with regexp_substr as following:
Select
regexp_substr('<cosmtio :ff "intermit"ksks>', '[^"]+', 1, 2)
from dual;
Cheers!!

How to extract the number from a string using Oracle?

I have a string as follows: first, last (123456) the expected result should be 123456. Could someone help me in which direction should I proceed using Oracle?

It will depend on the actual pattern you care about (I assume "first" and "last" aren't literal hard-coded strings), but you will probably want to use regexp_substr.
For example, this matches anything between two brackets (which will work for your example), but you might need more sophisticated criteria if your actual examples have multiple brackets or something.
SELECT regexp_substr(COLUMN_NAME, '\(([^\)]*)\)', 1, 1, 'i', 1)
FROM TABLE_NAME

Your question is ambiguous and needs clarification. Based on your comment it appears you want to select the six digits after the left bracket. You can use the Oracle instr function to find the position of a character in a string, and then feed that into the substr to select your text.
select substr(mycol, instr(mycol, '(') + 1, 6) from mytable
Or if there are a varying number of digits between the brackets:
select substr(mycol, instr(mycol, '(') + 1, instr(mycol, ')') - instr(mycol, '(') - 1) from mytable

Find the last ( and get the sub-string after without the trailing ) and convert that to a number:
SQL Fiddle
Oracle 11g R2 Schema Setup:
CREATE TABLE test ( str ) AS
SELECT 'first, last (123456)' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'john, doe (jr) (987654321)' FROM DUAL;
Query 1:
SELECT TO_NUMBER(
TRIM(
TRAILING ')' FROM
SUBSTR(
str,
INSTR( str, '(', -1 ) + 1
)
)
) AS value
FROM test
Results:
| VALUE |
|-----------|
| 123456 |
| 987654321 |

Oracle - How to extract delimited string

I have a sample String as below,
A|SDFR|RESTA|PRET|PRUQA
B|121|BBCTRI|9ALFA|DEV|5AS
I want to extract the part that is coming after send delimiter,
Expected,
RESTA|PRET|PRUQA
BBCTRI|9ALFA|DEV|5AS
What i got is just extracting single characters regexp_substr

Assuming you mean after the second delimiter, you don't need to use regular expressions for this; you can use the basic ]substr()](http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/functions196.htm) function, getting the starting position with instr():
substr(<your_string>, instr(<your_string>, '|', 1, 2) + 1)
The third argument to instr() says you want the second occurrence; the second argument says you're starting from position 1. That then points to the second delimiter, and you want to start at the next character after that delimiter, so have to add 1.
Demo:
with t (str) as (
select 'A|SDFR|RESTA|PRET|PRUQA' from dual
union all select 'B|121|BBCTRI|9ALFA|DEV|5AS' from dual
)
select substr(str, instr(str, '|', 1, 2) + 1)
from t;
SUBSTR(STR,INSTR(STR,'|',1
--------------------------
RESTA|PRET|PRUQA
BBCTRI|9ALFA|DEV|5AS

try this:
substr(string, instr(string, '|', 1, 2)+1)

Maybe like this;
with a as (select 'B|121|BBCTRI|9ALFA|DEV|5AS' test from dual)
select substr(test,instr(test,'|',3)+1) from a

How to replace more than one character in oracle?

How to replace multiple whole characters, except those in combinations...?
The below code replaces multiple characters, but it also disturbing those in combinations.
SELECT regexp_replace('a,ca,va,ea,r,y,q,b,g','(a|y|q|g)','X') RESULT FROM dual;
Current output:
RESULT
--------------------
X,cX,vX,eX,r,X,X,b,X
Expected output:
RESULT
------------------------
'X,ca,va,ea,r,X,X,b,X
I just want to replace only separate whole characters('a','y','q','g'), but not the 1 in combinations('ca','va','ea')...

Because you are delimiting with a comma ',' you can combine that like ',a,'
and this will replace only single a's.

you can try follows:
with t as
(
select 'a,ca,va,ea,r,y,q,b,g' str
from dual
)
select substr(sys_connect_by_path(regexp_replace(regexp_substr(str, '[^,]+', 1, level), '^(a|y|q|g)$', 'X'), ','), 2) as str
from t
where connect_by_isleaf = 1
connect by level <= length(regexp_replace(str, '[^,]*')) + 1;

Sadly oracle doesn´t support lookahead and lookbehind. But this is a solution i came up with.
SELECT regexp_replace
(regexp_replace
('a,ca,va,ea,r,y,q,b,g',
'^[ayqg](,)|(,)[ayqg](,)|(,)[ayqg]$',
'\2\4X\1\3'),'(,)[ayqg](,)','\1X\2')
RESULT FROM dual;
I had to use the regexp twice sadly, since it doesn´t find two similar values following after each other and replacing it. ..,a,y,.. is getting replaced as ..,X,y,... So the second call replaces the missing [ayqg] with the exact values. In the first inner regexp call replaces the first and last values.
Maybe this could be simplified into one expression, but i am not that conform with the regex from oracle.
As a explanation i am grouping the commata and basicly replace every ,[ayqg], with ,X, by backreferencing the commata

You would look for word boundaries, which is \b, and which is unfortunately not supported by Oracle's regexp_replace.
So let's look for a non-word character \W or the beginning ^ or ending $ of the text.
select
regexp_replace('a,ca,va,ea,r,y,q,b,g','(^|$|\W)(a|y|q|g)(^|$|\W)','\1X\3') as result
from dual;
In order to not remove the non-word characters, we must have them in the replace string: \1 for the expression in the first parenteses, \3 for the ones in the third. Thus we only change the expression in the second parentheses, which is a, y, q or g, with X.
Unfortunately above gives
X,ca,va,ea,r,X,q,b,X
The q was not replaced, because we recognize ',y,' thus being positioned a 'g,' whereas we'd need to be positioned at ',g,' to recognize g as a word, too.
So we need to replace in iterations (i.e. recursively):
with results(txt, num) as
(
select 'a,ca,va,ea,r,y,q,b,g' as txt, 0 as num from dual
union all
select regexp_replace(txt, '(^|$|\W)(a|y|q|g)(^|$|\W)','\1X\3'), num + 1 as num
from results
where txt <> regexp_replace(txt, '(^|$|\W)(a|y|q|g)(^|$|\W)','\1X\3')
)
select max(txt) keep (dense_rank last order by num) as result
from results;
EDIT: Kevin Esche is right; of course one has to do it only twice. Hence you can also do:
select
regexp_replace(txt, search_str, replace_str) as result
from
(
select
regexp_replace(txt, search_str, replace_str) as txt, search_str, replace_str
from
(
select
'a,ca,va,ea,r,y,q,y,q,b,g' as txt,
'(^|$|\W)(a|y|q|g)(^|$|\W)' as search_str,
'\1X\3' as replace_str
from dual
)
);

with replaced_values as (
SELECT case when length(val)=1 then regexp_replace(val,'(a|y|q|g)','X') else val end new_val, lvl
from (
SELECT regexp_substr('a,ca,va,ea,r,y,q,b,g','[^,]+', 1, LEVEL) val, level lvl FROM dual
connect by regexp_substr('a,ca,va,ea,r,y,q,b,g','[^,]+',1, LEVEL) is not null
) all_values
)
select lISTAGG(new_val, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY lvl) RESULT
from replaced_values
This statement pivots data into rows and replaces only lines wich contains one character.
Data are then unpivoted in one rows

This sql works also with empty entries like 'a,,,b,c' and more complex regular expressions:
with t as
(select ',a,,ca,va,ea,bbb,ba,r,y,q,b,g,,,' as str,
',' as delimiter,
'(a|y|q|g|ea|[b]*)' as regexp_expr,
'X' as replace_expr
from dual)
(select substr (sys_connect_by_path(regexp_replace(substr(str,
decode(level - 1, 0, 0, instr(str, ',', 1, level - 1)) + 1,
decode(instr(str, ',', 1, level),
0,
length(str),
instr(str, ',', 1, level) - 1) -
decode(level - 1, 0, 0, instr(str, ',', 1, level - 1))),
'^' || regexp_expr || '$',
replace_expr), ','), 2)
from t
where connect_by_isleaf = 1
connect by level <= length(regexp_replace(str, '[^'|| delimiter||']')) + 1)
Result
,X,,ca,va,X,X,ba,r,X,X,X,X,,,

Don't Know much Oracle, but I would have thought something like this could work. Assuming the delimiter is always a comma.
SELECT
regexp_replace(regexp_replace(regexp_replace(regexp_replace(regexp_replace('a,ca,va,ea,r,y,q,b,g','(,a,|,y,|,q,|,g,)',',X,') ,'(,a,|,y,|,q,|,g,)',',X,'), '(^a,|^y,|^q,|^g,)','X,'), '(,a$|,y$|,q$|,g$)',',X'), '(^a$|^y$|^q$|^g$)','X')
RESULT FROM test;
The first two parts replaces a single character in commas in the middle, the third part gets those at the start of the string, the fourth is for the end of the string and the fifth is for when then string has just one character.
This answer might will be simplifiable by advanced Regexp use.

How i can replace words?
RS & OS ===> D, LS & IS ==== >
SECTION_ID Output required
1-LS-1991 1-P-1991
1-IS-1991 1-P-1991
1-RS-1991 1- D- 1991
1-OS-1991 1-D-1991