I need a way to trim a string in PL/SQL based on the location of the last commas in the string. However, there is no uniform format for the incoming strings, and I can't find a way to trim the string effectively.
HU-15-02 | HU, NYI, HAA East (should be trimmed to just HAA East)
MX-01-05 | MX, 01-05, OFFICES (OFFICES)
DK-94-02 | DK, ViewCom (VIEWCOM)
the format is country code, followed by a building ID (if applicable), followed by the name of the building (which is what I want)
Get the location of last comma by counting back from the end of the string and then trim from the comma plus space forward
select substr(your_text,INSTR(your_text,',',-1) +2)
from your_table;
REGEXP_SUBSTR() to the rescue:
SQL> with tbl(str) as (
select 'HU, NYI, HAA East' from dual
union
select 'MX-01-05 | MX, 01-05, OFFICES' from dual
union
select 'DK-94-02 | DK, ViewCom' from dual
)
select regexp_substr(str, '^.*, (.*)$', 1, 1, null, 1) bldg_name
from tbl;
BLDG_NAME
-----------------------------
ViewCom
HAA East
OFFICES
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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
I have a table which has records with special characters in a production environment for data correction. Now the DB can have data which contain either English or Spanish characters. So I need to find only those special characters which do not belong to either of these alphabets. For example, I can have data like the following:
Here the character Ñ is correct because it is a spanish character, but the second one is not. The query I have written is the following but it fetches all the above and not only the second one.
select customerid,customername
from prodschema.prodtable
where not regexp_like(customername, '.*[^a-zA-Z0-9 .{}\[\]].*') and
customernamelike 'YOLANDA RIOS CAS%';
So what should be the correct query for this?
with t as
(
select 'YOLANDA RIOS CASTANO' str from dual
union all select 'YOLANDA RIOS CASTAÑO' str from dual
union all select 'YOLANDA RIOS CASTA°O' str from dual
)
select str,
length(regexp_replace(str, '[a-z[=n=] ]', null, 1, 0, 'i'))
as cnt_not_recognized_chars
from t;
STR CNT_NOT_RECOGNIZED_CHARS
-------------------- ------------------------
YOLANDA RIOS CASTANO
YOLANDA RIOS CASTAÑO
YOLANDA RIOS CASTA°O 1
3 rows selected.
Find additional details here http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E18283_01/server.112/e17118/ap_posix001.htm
Return the ASCII value for your column customername, and remove like that. Just for future you could set the column to have a Accent Sensitivity collation.
SELECT ASCII(CustomerName)
FROM prodschema.prodtable
WHERE ASCII(CustomerName) != Value
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 ;
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.
I am working on a query in SQL that should be able to extract numbers on different/random lenght from the beginning of the text string.
Text string: 666 devils number is not 8888.
Text string: 12345 devils number is my PIN, that is 6666.
I want to get in a column
666
12345
Use a combination of Substr & instr
SELECT Substr (textstring, 1,instr(textstring,' ') - 1) AS Output
FROM yourtable
Result:
OUTPUT
666
12345
Use this if you have text at the beginning e.g. aa12345 devils number is my PIN, that is 6666. as it utilises the REGEXP_REPLACE function.
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE(Substr (textstring, 1,instr(textstring,' ') - 1), '[[:alpha:]]','') AS Output
FROM yourtable
SQL Fiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/8edc9/1/0
This version utilizes a regular expression which gives you the first number whether or not it's preceded by text and does not use the ghastly nested instr/substr calls:
SQL> with tbl(data) as (
select '666 devils number is not 8888' from dual
union
select '12345 devils number is my PIN, that is 6666' from dual
union
select 'aa12345 devils number is my PIN, that is 6666' from dual
)
select regexp_substr(data, '^\D*(\d+) ', 1, 1, null, 1) first_nbr
from tbl;
FIRST_NBR
---------------------------------------------
12345
666
12345
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