I would like to ask something, I'm working on generating an excel containing records from table.
Now, I have records in a column ex. 123450000
The customer wants the data to be 12345-0000
So in my select statement, every 5th of the column, there should be a dash in between
If the record has only 5 characters, then no "-" will be placed
I'm using SQL Server database for this.
Thanks :)
SELECT STUFF('12345000',6,7,'-0000');
This function should help;
DELIMITER //
CREATE FUNCTION dashify(#indata VARCHAR(MAX)) RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX) AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #breakat INT = 5
WHILE #breakat < LEN(#indata)
BEGIN
SET #indata = STUFF(#indata, #breakat+1, 0, '-');
SET #breakat = #breakat + 6
END
RETURN #indata;
END;
//
SELECT dbo.dashify('12345678901234') //
> 12345-67890-1234
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I am trying to parse out certain data from a string and I am having issues.
Here is the string:
1=BETA.1.0^2=175^3=812^4=R^5=N^9=1^12=1^13=00032^14=REP NOT FOUND ON REP TABLE, CANNOT INSERT TO REPRGR.^10=107~117~265~1114~3143~3505~3506~3513~5717^11=SA16~1~WY~WY~A~S~20100210~001~SE62^-omitted due to existing Rep Not Found
I need to return this "REP NOT FOUND ON REP TABLE, CANNOT INSERT TO REPRGR."
Here is my query SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(5000),CHARINDEX('14=',Column))FROM Table
If you're parsing, can we assume that you don't know what might come after the '^14=', but you need to capture whatever does? So searching for a particular string won't work because anything could come after '^14='. The best approach is to identify the longest reliable specific string that gives you a "foothold" to find the data you're looking for. What you don't want to do is accidentally capture the wrong data if the '^14=' appears more than once in your string. It looks like the '^' is your delimiter, since I don't see one at the start of the string. So you were actually on the right track, you just need to use SUBSTRING as a commenter mentioned. You also need to identify a marker for the end of the error message, which looks like it might be the next occurring '^', correct? Check several samples to be sure of this, and make sure the end marker doesn't at any point exist before your start marker or you'll get an error.
SELECT CAST((SUBSTRING(Column,CHARINDEX('14=',Column,0),CHARINDEX('^',Column,CHARINDEX('14=',Column,0) + 1) - CHARINDEX('14=',Column,0))) AS VARCHAR(5000)) FROM Table
You may need to increment or decrement the start position and end position by doing a +1 or -1 to fully capture your error message. But this should dynamically grab any length error message provided you are positive of your starting and ending markers.
I also have here a table-valued parsing function, where you would pass it the string and the '^' and it will return a table of data with not only the 14=, but everything.
CREATE function [dbo].[fn_SplitStringByDelimeter]
(
#list nvarchar(8000)
,#splitOn char(1)
)
returns #rtnTable table
(
id int identity(1,1)
,value nvarchar(100)
)
as
begin
declare #index int
declare #string nvarchar(4000)
select #index = 1
if len(#list) < 1 or #list is null return
--
while #index!= 0
begin
set #index = charindex(#splitOn,#list)
if #index!=0
set #string = left(#list,#index - 1)
else
set #string = #list
if(len(#string)>0)
insert into #rtnTable(value) values(#string)
--
set #list = right(#list,len(#list) - #index)
if len(#list) = 0 break
end
return
end
It sounds like you're trying to get the value of argument 14. This should do it:
select substring(
someData
, charindex('^14=',someData) + 4
, charindex('^',someData, charindex('^14=',someData) + 4) - charindex('^14=',someData) - 4
) errorMessage
from myData
where charindex('^14=',someData) > 0
and charindex('^',someData, charindex('^14=',someData) + 4) > 0
Try it here: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!18/22f23/2
This gets a substring of the given input.
The substring starts at the first character after the string ^14=; i.e. we get the index of ^14= in the string, then add 4 to it to skip over the matched characters themselves.
The substring ends at the first ^ character after the one in ^14=. We get the index of that character, then subtract the starting position from it to get the length of the desired output.
Caveats: If there is no parameter (^) after ^14= this will not work. Equally if there is no ^14= (even if the string starts 14=) this will not work. From the information available that's OK; but if this is a concern please say and we can provide something to handle that more complex scenario.
Code to create table & populate demo data
create table myData (someData nvarchar(256))
insert myData (someData)
values ('1=BETA.1.0^2=175^3=812^4=R^5=N^9=1^12=1^13=00032^14=REP NOT FOUND ON REP TABLE, CANNOT INSERT TO REPRGR.^10=107~117~265~1114~3143~3505~3506~3513~5717^11=SA16~1~WY~WY~A~S~20100210~001~SE62^-omitted due to existing Rep Not Found')
, ('1xx^14=something else.^10=xx')
You could try to use a Case When statement with wildcards to find the value that you want.
Example:
SELECT
CASE
WHEN x LIKE '%REP Not Found%'
THEN 'REP NOT FOUND ON REP TABLE, CANNOT INSERT TO REPRGR'
ELSE
''
END AS x
FROM
#T1
You could use this query (assuming MySQL database):
-- item is the column that contains the string
select SUBSTR(item, LOCATE('REP',item), LOCATE('REPRGR.',item) + LENGTH('REPRGR.') - LOCATE('REP', item)) info_msg from Table;
Illustration:
create table parsetest (item varchar(5000));
insert into parsetest values('1=BETA.1.0^2=175^3=812^4=R^5=N^9=1^12=1^13=00032^14=REP NOT FOUND ON REP TABLE, CANNOT INSERT TO REPRGR.^10=107~117~265~1114~3143~3505~3506~3513~5717^11=SA16~1~WY~WY~A~S~20100210~001~SE62^-omitted due to existing Rep Not Found');
select * from parsetest;
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| item |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1=BETA.1.0^2=175^3=812^4=R^5=N^9=1^12=1^13=00032^14=REP NOT FOUND ON REP TABLE, CANNOT INSERT TO REPRGR.^10=107~117~265~1114~3143~3505~3506~3513~5717^11=SA16~1~WY~WY~A~S~20100210~001~SE62^-omitted due to existing Rep Not Found |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
select SUBSTR(item, LOCATE('REP',item), LOCATE('REPRGR.',item) + LENGTH('REPRGR.') - LOCATE('REP', item)) info_msg from parsetest;
+------------------------------------------------------+
| info_msg |
+------------------------------------------------------+
| REP NOT FOUND ON REP TABLE, CANNOT INSERT TO REPRGR. |
+------------------------------------------------------+
I had a previous question and it got me started but now I'm needing help completing this. Previous question = How to search a string and return only numeric value?
Basically I have a table with one of the columns containing a very long XML string. There's a number I want to extract near the end. A sample of the number would be this...
<SendDocument DocumentID="1234567">true</SendDocument>
So I want to use substrings to find the first part = true so that Im only left with the number.
What Ive tried so far is this:
SELECT SUBSTRING(xml_column, CHARINDEX('>true</SendDocument>', xml_column) - CHARINDEX('<SendDocument',xml_column) +10087,9)
The above gives me the results but its far from being correct. My concern is that, what if the number grows from 7 digits to 8 digits, or 9 or 10?
In the previous question I was helped with this:
SELECT SUBSTRING(cip_msg, CHARINDEX('<SendDocument',cip_msg)+26,7)
and thats how I got started but I wanted to alter so that I could subtract the last portion and just be left with the numbers.
So again, first part of the string that contains the digits, find the two substrings around the digits and remove them and retrieve just the digits no matter the length.
Thank you all
You should be able to setup your SUBSTRING() so that both the starting and ending positions are variable. That way the length of the number itself doesn't matter.
From the sound of it, the starting position you want is right After the "true"
The starting position would be:
CHARINDEX('<SendDocument DocumentID=', xml_column) + 25
((adding 25 because I think CHARINDEX gives you the position at the beginning of the string you are searching for))
Length would be:
CHARINDEX('>true</SendDocument>',xml_column) - CHARINDEX('<SendDocument DocumentID=', xml_column)+25
((Position of the ending text minus the position of the start text))
So, how about something along the lines of:
SELECT SUBSTRING(xml_column, CHARINDEX('<SendDocument DocumentID=', xml_column)+25,(CHARINDEX('>true</SendDocument>',xml_column) - CHARINDEX('<SendDocument DocumentID=', xml_column)+25))
Have you tried working directly with the xml type? Like below:
DECLARE #TempXmlTable TABLE
(XmlElement xml )
INSERT INTO #TempXmlTable
select Convert(xml,'<SendDocument DocumentID="1234567">true</SendDocument>')
SELECT
element.value('./#DocumentID', 'varchar(50)') as DocumentID
FROM
#TempXmlTable CROSS APPLY
XmlElement.nodes('//.') AS DocumentID(element)
WHERE element.value('./#DocumentID', 'varchar(50)') is not null
If you just want to work with this as a string you can do the following:
DECLARE #SearchString varchar(max) = '<SendDocument DocumentID="1234567">true</SendDocument>'
DECLARE #Start int = (select CHARINDEX('DocumentID="',#SearchString)) + 12 -- 12 Character search pattern
DECLARE #End int = (select CHARINDEX('">', #SearchString)) - #Start --Find End Characters and subtract start position
SELECT SUBSTRING(#SearchString,#Start,#End)
Below is the extended version of parsing an XML document string. In the example below, I create a copy of a PLSQL function called INSTR, the MS SQL database does not have this by default. The function will allow me to search strings at a designated starting position. In addition, I'm parsing a sample XML string into a variable temp table into lines and only looking at lines that match my search criteria. This is because there may be many elements with the words DocumentID and I'll want to find all of them. See below:
IF EXISTS (select * from sys.objects where name = 'INSTR' and type = 'FN')
DROP FUNCTION [dbo].[INSTR]
GO
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[INSTR] (#String VARCHAR(8000), #SearchStr VARCHAR(255), #Start INT, #Occurrence INT)
RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #Found INT = #Occurrence,
#Position INT = #Start;
WHILE 1=1
BEGIN
-- Find the next occurrence
SET #Position = CHARINDEX(#SearchStr, #String, #Position);
-- Nothing found
IF #Position IS NULL OR #Position = 0
RETURN #Position;
-- The required occurrence found
IF #Found = 1
BREAK;
-- Prepare to find another one occurrence
SET #Found = #Found - 1;
SET #Position = #Position + 1;
END
RETURN #Position;
END
GO
--Assuming well formated xml
DECLARE #XmlStringDocument varchar(max) = '<SomeTag Attrib1="5">
<SendDocument DocumentID="1234567">true</SendDocument>
<SendDocument DocumentID="1234568">true</SendDocument>
</SomeTag>'
--Split Lines on this element tag
DECLARE #SplitOn nvarchar(25) = '</SendDocument>'
--Let's hold all lines in Temp variable table
DECLARE #XmlStringLines TABLE
(
Value nvarchar(100)
)
While (Charindex(#SplitOn,#XmlStringDocument)>0)
Begin
Insert Into #XmlStringLines (value)
Select
Value = ltrim(rtrim(Substring(#XmlStringDocument,1,Charindex(#SplitOn,#XmlStringDocument)-1)))
Set #XmlStringDocument = Substring(#XmlStringDocument,Charindex(#SplitOn,#XmlStringDocument)+len(#SplitOn),len(#XmlStringDocument))
End
Insert Into #XmlStringLines (Value)
Select Value = ltrim(rtrim(#XmlStringDocument))
--Now we have a table with multple lines find all Document IDs
SELECT
StartPosition = CHARINDEX('DocumentID="',Value) + 12,
--Now lets use the INSTR function to find the first instance of '">' after our search string
EndPosition = dbo.INSTR(Value,'">',( CHARINDEX('DocumentID="',Value)) + 12,1),
--Now that we know the start and end lets use substring
Value = SUBSTRING(value,(
-- Start Position
CHARINDEX('DocumentID="',Value)) + 12,
--End Position Minus Start Position
dbo.INSTR(Value,'">',( CHARINDEX('DocumentID="',Value)) + 12,1) - (CHARINDEX('DocumentID="',Value) + 12))
FROM
#XmlStringLines
WHERE Value like '%DocumentID%' --Only care about lines with a document id
I have some binary values such as 00, 0000, 001000.11111000, 1111100000
I need to sum it up so it turns into 0, 0, 1, 5, 5 ( sum 0s and 1s up)
how can we do that in SQL please?
Thanks
Assumption:
The binary values are stored as string.
Each value is in its own cell in a table. Something like:
BinaryValues (Consider it a column name)
00
0000
001000
and so on.
You want to add up the individual digits to get the sum.
SQL Product you are usind supports functions, looping, string manipulation like substring, extracting string length etc.
As per my best knowledge these are primitives available in all SQL products.
Solution:
Write a function (call it by any name. Ex: AddBinaryDigits) which will take the binary value in string format as input.
Inside the function and do a string manipulation. Extract each digit and add it up. Return the sum as result.
Call the function:
If using binary values stored in a table:
SELECT AddBinaryDigits(BinaryValues) FROM <WhatEverTableName>
If using fixed value:
SELECT AddBinaryDigits('00')
SELECT AddBinaryDigits('0000')
SELECT AddBinaryDigits('001000')
and so on.
Edited to include the request to create function.
CREATE FUNCTION <funtionName>
(
#ParameterName AS VARCHAR(expected string length like 10/15/20 etc.)
)
RETURNS INT
BEGIN
SQL Code to sum
RETURN SummedUpValue
END
Use the below query. If needed convert it into function.
create function dbo.fnSumChars(#someInt VARCHAR(20))
RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE #count INT = LEN(#someInt),
#counter INT = 1
DECLARE #Sum INT = 0
WHILE #counter <= #count
BEGIN
SELECT #sum += CAST(SUBSTRING(CAST(#someInt AS VARCHAR), #counter, 1) AS int)
SELECT #counter += 1
END
RETURN #sum --5
END
This is the function and you can call this function like below
SELECT dbo.fnSumChars('1111100000')
If these are already in string format, this is the easiest:
select len(replace('1111100000', '0', ''))
No need for a function either, because it can be inlined in the query. Functions, even the light ones, incure perf penalty.
This question already has answers here:
Fastest way to remove non-numeric characters from a VARCHAR in SQL Server
(16 answers)
Closed 9 years ago.
In SQL Server 2008 R2 I have some data in a varchar(12) column, it looks something like this:
Data:
%%1234
%1765
34566
123
%SDRMH
HJG434
I'd like to drop the '%' from all the rows that have it and also only select those which are numbers. I've already tried to use the ISNUMERIC() function, but it looks like that leaves the % in the rows.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
You can use a combination of REPLACE and ISNUMERIC to achieve the result set you want:
SELECT REPLACE(columnName,'%','') FROM tableName
WHERE ISNUMERIC(REPLACE(columnName,'%','')) = 1
You could use the REPLACE function to strip out all the % instances
SELECT REPLACE(column_name,'%','');
GO
This function would be expensive to use, but it could help you create / populate a new column properly typed as an int (for example):
create function [dbo].[is_int]
( #value as varchar(max) )
returns int
as
begin
declare #return int
set #return = 5
while len(#value) > 0
begin
if left(#value,1) in('1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','0')
begin
set #value = right(#value, len(#value)-1)
set #return = 1
end
else
begin
set #return = 0
set #value = ''
end
end
return #return
end
or you could modify it to return the integers themselves, instead of a true/false (1/0).
You could do something like
SELECT REPLACE(column,'%','') WHERE ISNUMERIC(REPLACE(column,'%','')) = 1
How do I detect my #AE_LedgerAC parameter in my store procedure contains only 6 characters? if it contains only 6 characters, I want to add in front the details contain on this table BIN.BranchId:
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[AccountEntries]
#AE_LedgerAC varchar(21)=null,
#AE_Transaction_Ref varchar(50)=null,
#AE_Detail nvarchar(50)=null,
AS
DECLARE #NEW_LedgerAC varchar(21) = null
IF(LEN(#AE_LedgerAC) = 6)
BEGIN
#NEW_LedgerAC = SELECT TOP 1 BIN.BranchId FROM BIN + #AE_LedgerAC
ELSE
#NEW_LedgerAC = #AE_LedgerAC
INSERT INTO [AccountEntries](LedgerAC, Transaction_Ref, Detail)
VALUES (#AE_LedgerAC, #AE_Transaction_Ref, #AE_Detail)
use LEN ( string_expression )
IF(LEN(#AE_LedgerAC) = 6)
BEGIN
...
END
Assuming this is MSSQL, check out the following links from Microsoft's MSDN:
LEN
IF/ELSE
ISNULL
SET #local_variable