I want to remove semicolons and create new columns to separate the years with different columns in this table:
I tried to replace it with the following code but I had this result:
This result only deletes what comes after the first semicolon and does not replace subsequent semicolons with new columns with the years, thanks for the answers:
SELECT Province, REPLACE( Annee_Guerre, ';' , CHR(13) + CHR(10))
FROM Feuil1;
You might want to consider replacing the ";" with vbCrLf in the VBA code using a recordset and a loop. Queries usually do not respond well to Cr and Lf in the strings.
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I'm trying to remove few special characters from a comment column in my table. I used the below statement but it seems to remove the ']' even though it is in the ^[not] list.
UPDATE TEST
set comments=REGEXP_REPLACE(
comments,
'[^[a-z,A-Z,0-9,[:space:],''&'','':'',''/'',''.'',''?'',''!'','']'']]*',
' '
);
The table data contains the following:
[SYSTEM]:Do you have it in stock? 😊
My requirement is to have:
[SYSTEM]:Do you have it in stock?
You have two mistakes in you regex:
Do not put characters in quotes and don't split them with comma.
Remove inner square brackets.
And place closing square brackets first in the list, just after initial circumflex. Fixed regex:
UPDATE TEST set comments=REGEXP_REPLACE(comments,'[^]a-zA-Z0-9[:space:]&:/.?!]*',' ');
My try, I just removed the commas, put the "accepted" characters after the initial "not"(no brackets).
A special case are the brackets: https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/109294/6228
select REGEXP_REPLACE(
'[ION] are varză murată.',
'[^][a-zA-Z0-9[:space:]&:/,.?!]+',
' ')
from dual;
Result:
[ION] are varz murat .
I have a varchar column, and each field contains a single word, but there are random number of pipe character before and after the word.
Something like this:
MyVarcharColumn
'|||Apple|||||'
'|||||Pear|||||'
'||Leaf|'
When I query the table, I wish to replace the multiple pipes to a single one, so the result would be like this:
MyVarcharColumn
'|Apple|'
'|Pear|'
'|Leaf|'
Cannot figure out how to solve it with REPLACE function, anybody knows?
vkp's method absolutely solves your issue. Another method that works, and also will work in a variety of other situations, is using a triple REPLACE()
SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE('|||Apple|||||', '|', '><'), '<>',''), '><','|')
This method will allow you to keep a delimiter between multiple strings where Mr. VPK's method will concat the strings and put a delim at the very beginning and the very end.
SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE('|||Apple|||||Banana||||||||||', '|', '><'), '<>',''), '><','|')
One way is to replace all the | with blanks and add a pipe character at the beginning and the end of string.
select '|'+replace(mycolumn,'|','')+'|' from tablename
I'm putting the following in my SQL select statement to concatenate text strings (which are not fields in the database) with a couple database fields and I'm getting spaces where I try to use the to_char function to add leading zeros to a couple fields.
Running:
SELECT 'EP.'||TO_CHAR(PWROTPR_TRANSX_NBR,'0000000')||'.'||TO_CHAR(PWROTPR_SUBMIT_COUNTER,'00') as ATS_NBR
Yields:
EP. 0017092. 01
How to I eliminate the unnecessary spaces?
Try using replace function:
SELECT replace(('EP.'||TO_CHAR(PWROTPR_TRANSX_NBR,'0000000')||'.'||TO_CHAR(PWROTPR_SUBMIT_COUNTER,'00')), ' ', '') as ATS_NBR
Just looking for another way to remove any excess spaces(>1) throughout a query. I'm taking information for my Oracle query from an Excel spreadsheet so there's bound to be some excess zeroes due to user error and whatnot so that when I'm taking the information from the excel it will have 2 sometimes 3 extra spaces after some values so we won't get any records returned from Oracle when we query it through the application. I have tried Trim(ds.Tables.Item(0).Rows.Item(k).Item(i).ToString.ToUpper) but this isn't removing the extra spaces in some of the values. Is there some SQL statement I don't know of or perhaps another reason why Trim isn't working?
Edit: Was writing replace function incorrectly.
Original: string.Replace(" ", " ")
New: string = string.replace(" ", " ")
Use String.Replace(" ", String.Empty) instead. Trim only removes leading and trailing spaces.
On the Oracle side, you can use the REGEXP_REPLACE function, but you need to apply it to each column you want to remove the extra spaces from:
SELECT
REGEXP_REPLACE(myCol1, ' {2,}', ' ') AS myCleanCol1,
REGEXP_REPLACE(myCol2, ' {2,}', ' ') AS myCleanCol2,
FROM myTable
The example here looks for all occurrences of two or more spaces (that's the second parameter) and replaces them with a single space (the third parameter).
You can use REGEXP_REPLACE
Could be something like this:
regexp_replace(your_column, '\s{2,}', '')
Here is a sqlfiddle demo
I have a scenario in my vb.net project where users need to select a name from a combobox (or type a new name).
Names of course can have ' as in Tina O'Hara which in the database would be stored as Tina O''Hara.
My combobox is populated from a sql select command. I have tried to use a Replace so that the names display correctly in the dropdown.
SqlStr = "SELECT Replace(ContactName, '''', ''') AS ddlText FROM tbl_Visits Where CustID = " & hd_CustID.value & " ORDER By ContactName"
PopulateCMBX(cmbx_ContactName, SqlStr, "Please Select")
PopulateCMBX... This gets a list of names from the supplied SqlStr and populates the combobox itemlist with a 'Please Select' as the first option.
SqlStr is producing an error as there is not a matching set of ' how do I fix this. Thanks
When referencing single quotes in MS-SQL, you need to escape each single quote (') with two single quotes ('').
If the name is stored in the database with two single quotes, such as (''), then when you do the replace you need to use four single quotes (''''). In addition to these, you need to enclose the string with single quotes.
What this means is that your replace should look like this:
SqlStr = "SELECT Replace(ContactName, '''''', '''') ...
The 2nd param in the replace has 6 single quotes: 4 to represent the two single quotes you are replacing, and 2 to make it a string. The 3rd param has 4 single quotes: 2 to represent a single escaped quote and two to make it a string.
Try with this, maybe not the best solution but it works (check this example):
select Replace(Replace(ContactName, '''', '$&'),'$&$&','''') from tbl_Visits
Note that $& is like a key that should not affect the values in your field, for example, could be a word: &&k&& or %%key%%, etc.
Back to clarify, it is not the best solution, but sometimes i've used.