rsarwar_at_ifsna.com (Rauf Sarwar) wrote in message news:<c2d690f2.0207012237.421819a_at_posting.google.com>...
> afayfman_at_mwh.com (Sashafay) wrote in message news:<a13f8a22.0207011552.6e579856_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3D207850.3C76D4A5_at_exesolutions.com>...
> > > Sashafay wrote:
> > >
> > > > I looking for the function (or some other trick) to identify new input
> > > > in the table, that will be a combination of two character and two
> > > > number only. But I don't know how to recognize if these input that
> > > > what I looking for. In that field user can input any values (ex.
> > > > ‘ABCD' or ‘1234') but I want only first and second characters and
> > > > third and fourth numbers (ex. ‘AB12').
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > Alex
> > >
> > > I suspect English not being your first language is interfering with your
> > > ability to state the problem. But based on my understanding of what you
> > > have posted there is not way of identifying records in the manner you
> > > suggest. I would suggest posting the table structure and a few rows of
> > > data (some new and some old) that will demonstrate what the difference is
> > > between old and new records.
> > >
> > > Generally when I want to do something like this I add a column to the
> > > table something like this:
> > >
> > > ALTER TABLE xyz
> > > ADD (new_flag NUMBER(1) DEFAULT 1);
> > >
> > > This will automatically insert a one '1' into the new_flag column with
> > > every insert.
> > >
> > > Then have your process update the field to 0 as you process the rows.
> > >
> > > Daniel Morgan
> >
> > This is for you example:
> >
> > SELECT* FROM TMP;
> >
> > ID CD AMT
> > ---------- -------- ----------
> > 1 AB12 10
> > 2 KCST 100
> > 3 123454 150
> > 4 12TUF24 450
> > 5 1Q9KJ0 500
> > 6 EQE786 1200
> > 7 o0o0o0 675
> > 8 AA11BB22 950
> > 9 WY09 50
> > 10 25OP 775
> >
> > 10 rows selected.
> >
> > From SELECT statement I want to get the following output:
> >
> > SELECT * FROM TMP WHERE ...
> >
> > ID CD AMT
> > ---------- -------- ----------
> > 1 AB12 10
> > 8 AA11BB22 950
> > 9 WY09 50
> >
> > 3 rows selected.
> >
> > Understandable???
>
>
> Now that is much better. You can create a function and call function
> to test your values. e.g. here is one way to do it,
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_func (
> cd_ IN VARCHAR2) RETURN NUMBER
> IS
> retval_ NUMBER;
> dummy_ NUMBER;
> BEGIN
> BEGIN
> dummy_ := TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(cd_, 1, 2));
> retval_ := 0;
> EXCEPTION
> WHEN OTHERS THEN
> retval_ := 1;
> END;
> IF (retval_ = 1) THEN
> BEGIN
> dummy_ := TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR(cd_, 3, 2));
> EXCEPTION
> WHEN OTHERS THEN
> retval_ := 0;
> END;
> END IF;
> RETURN retval_;
> END test_func;
> /
>
> SQL> SELECT * FROM TMP WHERE TEST_FUNC(CD) = 1;
>
> ID CD AMT
> ---------- -------- ----------
> 1 AB12 10
> 8 AA11BB22 950
> 9 WY09 50
>
> 3 rows selected.
>
> HTH
> //Rauf Sarwar
I think
SELECT * FROM tmp
WHERE WHERE TRANSLATE(cd,
'BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789',
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA000000000') LIKE 'AA00%'
will get you what you want without all that PL/SQL!
CE
Received on Tue Jul 02 2002 - 11:14:42 CDT
