I'm using an Oracle 11g DB and I want to find the position of the last character of a string.
For example:
"City=Amsterdam"
The string in this case would be "City=", I would like to get the position of the "=".
I know INSTR(Input,'City=', 1, 1)+4, would kinda work but I am looking for another way.
edit: Basically I want to use a substr function to extract "Amsterdam". But the select statement should be as clean as possible.
What I forgot to mention, the string contains more than "City=Amsterdam", it contains also "Customer=124"
"City=Amsterdam"; "Customer=124"
INSTR('City=Amsterdam', '=', -1)
use -1 for start pos!
from your comment, answer 2
select SUBSTR( input, INSTR(input, '=', -1)+1 ) as city
from yourTable;
And if you have more fields, before or after, as you mentions with customer=... you can do:
select substr(input,
INSTR(input,'City=')+5,
INSTR(input,'"', INSTR(input,'City='))-INSTR(input,'City=')-5
) as city from city;
And some kind of "fancy" query, to comment and make it more flexible with other fields...
select substr(c.input, c.citystart, c.cityend - c.citystart) as city
from (
select input as input,
INSTR(input,'City=')+5 as citystart,
INSTR(input,'"', INSTR(input,'City=')) as cityend
from city) c;
Test data:
create table city (input char(64));
insert into city values('"City=Amsterdam"; "Customer=124"');
insert into city values('"Customer=11"; "City=USA"');
insert into city values('"Tel=+00"; "City=China"; "Customer=1"');
insert into city values('"Tel=+00"; "Post=11111"; "Customer=333"; "City=Canada"');
See updated SQLFIDDLE:
Wouldn't you actually use:
INSTR(Input,'City=')+ length('City=') - 1
This seems to be the optimal code.
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I want to get sub string my output should look like gmail,outlook,Skype.
my string values are
'abc#gmail.com'
'cde.nitish#yahoo.com'
'xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com'
somthing like this as you can see its having variable length with mix symbol '.' and '#'
string values store in table form as a column name Mail_ID and Table name is tbl_Data
i am using sql server 2012
i use chart index for getting sub string
select SUBSTRING(Mail_ID, CHARINDEX('#',MAil_ID)+1, (CHARINDEX('.',MAil_ID) - (CHARINDEX('#', Mail_ID)+1)))
from tbl_data
And i want my output like:
'gmail'
'yahoo'
'sarvang'
Please help me i am newbies in sql server
This is my solution. I first get the position of the '#', and then get the position of the '.' in the string prior to it (the '#'). Then I can use those results to get the appropriate substring:
SELECT V.YourString,
SUBSTRING(V.YourString,D.I,A.I - D.I) AS StringPart
FROM (VALUES('abc#gmail.com'),
('cde.nitish#yahoo.com'),
('xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com'))V(YourString)
CROSS APPLY(VALUES(CHARINDEX('#',V.YourString)))A(I) --Get position of # to not repeat logic
CROSS APPLY(VALUES(CHARINDEX('.',LEFT(V.YourString,A.I))+1))D(I) --Get position of . to not repeat logic
Note for value of 'abc.def.steve#... it would return 'def.steve'; however, we don't have such an example so I don't know what the correct return value would be.
I'm posting this as a new answer, a the OP moved the goal posts from the original answer. My initial answer was based on their original question, not their "new" one, and it seems silly to remove an answer that was correct at the time:
SELECT V.YourString,
SUBSTRING(V.YourString,A.I, D.I - A.I) AS StringPart
FROM (VALUES('abc#gmail.com'),
('cde.nitish#yahoo.com'),
('xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com'))V(YourString)
CROSS APPLY(VALUES(CHARINDEX('#',V.YourString)+1))A(I)
CROSS APPLY(VALUES(CHARINDEX('.',V.YourString,A.I)))D(I);
This answers the original version of the question.
This may be simplest with a case expression to detect if there is a period before the '#':
select (case when email like '%.%#%'
then stuff(left(email, charindex('#', email) - 1), 1, charindex('.', email), '')
else left(email, charindex('#', email) - 1)
end)
from (values ('abc#gmail.com'), ('cde.nitish#yahoo.com'), ('xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com')) v(email)
I create a temp table with your data and write below query its worked
CREATE TABLE #T
(
DATA NVARCHAR(50)
)
INSERT INTO #T
VALUES('abc#gmail.com'),
('cde.nitish#yahoo.com'),
('xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com')
SELECT *,LEFT(RIGHT(DATA,LEN(DATA)-CHARINDEX('#',DATA,1)),CHARINDEX('.',RIGHT(DATA,LEN(DATA)-CHARINDEX('#',DATA,1)),1)-1)
FROM #t
AND its a output of my T-SQL
abc#gmail.com gmail
cde.nitish#yahoo.com yahoo
xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com sarvang
I'm sure this is super easy, but how would I go about converting LastName,FirstName to LastName,FirstInitial?
For example changing Smith,John to Smith,J or Johnson,John to Johnson,J etc.
Thank You!
In case of LastName and FirstName columns:
select LastName,substr(FirstName,1,1)
from mytable
;
In case of a fullname saved in a single column:
select substr(fullname,1,instr(fullname || ',',',')-1) || substr(fullname,instr(fullname || ',',','),2)
from mytable
;
or
select regexp_replace (fullname,'([^,]*,?)(.).*','\1\2')
from mytable
;
Here is one way, using just "standard" instr and substr. Assuming your input is a single string in the format 'Smith,John':
select substr(fullname, 1, instr(fullname, ',')+1) from yourtable;
yourtable is the name of the table, and fullname is the name of the column.
instr(fullname, ',') finds the position of the comma within the input string (it would be 6 in 'Smith,John'); thensubstrtakes the substring that begins at the first position (the1in the function call) and ends at the position calculated byinstr`, PLUS 1 (to get the first initial as well).
I have following data in my table
id nml
-- -----------------
1 Temora sepanil
2 Human Mixtard
3 stlliot vergratob
I need to get the result by extracting first word in column nml and get its last 3 characters with reverse order
That means output should be like
nml reverse
----------------- -------
Temora sepanil aro
Human Mixtard nam
stlliot vergratob toi
You use PostgreSQL's string functions to achieve desired output
in this case am using split_part,right,reverse function
select reverse(right(split_part('Temora sepanil',' ',1),3))
output:
aro
so you can write your query in following format
select nml
,reverse(right(split_part(nml,' ',1),3)) "Reverse"
from tbl
Split nml using regexp_split_to_array(string text, pattern text [, flags text ]) refer Postgres Doc for more info.
Use reverse(str) (refer Postgres Doc) to reverse the first word form previous split.
Use substr(string, from [, count]) (refer Postgres Doc) to select first three letters of the reversed test
Query
SELECT
nml,
substr(reverse(regexp_split_to_array(nml, E'\\s+')[0]),3) as reverse
FROM
MyTable
You can use the SUBSTRING, CHARINDEX, RIGHT and REVERSE function
here's the syntax
REVERSE(RIGHT(SUBSTRING(nml , 1, CHARINDEX(' ', nml) - 1),3))
sample:
SELECT REVERSE(RIGHT(SUBSTRING(nml , 1, CHARINDEX(' ', nml) - 1),3)) AS 'Reverse'
FROM TableNameHere
Using T-SQL, how would I go about getting the last 3 characters of a varchar column?
So the column text is IDS_ENUM_Change_262147_190 and I need 190
SELECT RIGHT(column, 3)
That's all you need.
You can also do LEFT() in the same way.
Bear in mind if you are using this in a WHERE clause that the RIGHT() can't use any indexes.
You can use either way:
SELECT RIGHT(RTRIM(columnName), 3)
OR
SELECT SUBSTRING(columnName, LEN(columnName)-2, 3)
Because more ways to think about it are always good:
select reverse(substring(reverse(columnName), 1, 3))
declare #newdata varchar(30)
set #newdata='IDS_ENUM_Change_262147_190'
select REVERSE(substring(reverse(#newdata),0,charindex('_',reverse(#newdata))))
=== Explanation ===
I found it easier to read written like this:
SELECT
REVERSE( --4.
SUBSTRING( -- 3.
REVERSE(<field_name>),
0,
CHARINDEX( -- 2.
'<your char of choice>',
REVERSE(<field_name>) -- 1.
)
)
)
FROM
<table_name>
Reverse the text
Look for the first occurrence of a specif char (i.e. first occurrence FROM END of text). Gets the index of this char
Looks at the reversed text again. searches from index 0 to index of your char. This gives the string you are looking for, but in reverse
Reversed the reversed string to give you your desired substring
if you want to specifically find strings which ends with desired characters then this would help you...
select * from tablename where col_name like '%190'
In my database (SQL 2005) I have a field which holds a comment but in the comment I have an id and I would like to strip out just the id, and IF possible convert it to an int:
activation successful of id 1010101
The line above is the exact structure of the data in the db field.
And no I don't want to do this in the code of the application, I actually don't want to touch it, just in case you were wondering ;-)
This should do the trick:
SELECT SUBSTRING(column, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', column), 999)
FROM table
Based on your sample data, this that there is only one occurence of an integer in the string and that it is at the end.
I don't have a means to test it at the moment, but:
select convert(int, substring(fieldName, len('activation successful of id '), len(fieldName) - len('activation successful of id '))) from tableName
Would you be open to writing a bit of code? One option, create a CLR User Defined function, then use Regex. You can find more details here. This will handle complex strings.
If your above line is always formatted as 'activation successful of id #######', with your number at the end of the field, then:
declare #myColumn varchar(100)
set #myColumn = 'activation successful of id 1010102'
SELECT
#myColumn as [OriginalColumn]
, CONVERT(int, REVERSE(LEFT(REVERSE(#myColumn), CHARINDEX(' ', REVERSE(#myColumn))))) as [DesiredColumn]
Will give you:
OriginalColumn DesiredColumn
---------------------------------------- -------------
activation successful of id 1010102 1010102
(1 row(s) affected)
select cast(right(column_name,charindex(' ',reverse(column_name))) as int)
CAST(REVERSE(LEFT(REVERSE(#Test),CHARINDEX(' ',REVERSE(#Test))-1)) AS INTEGER)
-- Test table, you will probably use some query
DECLARE #testTable TABLE(comment VARCHAR(255))
INSERT INTO #testTable(comment)
VALUES ('activation successful of id 1010101')
-- Use Charindex to find "id " then isolate the numeric part
-- Finally check to make sure the number is numeric before converting
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(JUSTNUMBER)=1 THEN CAST(JUSTNUMBER AS INTEGER) ELSE -1 END
FROM (
select right(comment, len(comment) - charindex('id ', comment)-2) as justnumber
from #testtable) TT
I would also add that this approach is more set based and hence more efficient for a bunch of data values. But it is super easy to do it just for one value as a variable. Instead of using the column comment you can use a variable like #chvComment.
If the comment string is EXACTLY like that you can use replace.
select replace(comment_col, 'activation successful of id ', '') as id from ....
It almost certainly won't be though - what about unsuccessful Activations?
You might end up with nested replace statements
select replace(replace(comment_col, 'activation not successful of id ', ''), 'activation successful of id ', '') as id from ....
[sorry can't tell from this edit screen if that's entirely valid sql]
That starts to get messy; you might consider creating a function and putting the replace statements in that.
If this is a one off job, it won't really matter. You could also use a regex, but that's quite slow (and in any case mean you now have 2 problems).