Re: regexp_substr help, please
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:52:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <00c34c46-6f45-454c-a110-75b43ea5fec5@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 29, 12:43 pm, yf..._at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones)
wrote:
> Doug Miller (spamb..._at_milmac.com) wrote:
>
> : I need to be able to pull just the last name out of a string consisting of
> : lastname and firstname, separated by a comma, or space, or comma and space.
> : Complicating matters somewhat is the fact that lastname might be something
> : like "Mc Kay" or "St. Louis" so simply grabbing everything before the first
> : space isn't sufficient.
>
> : The closest I've come so far is
> : select regexp_substr ('St. Louis, Ted', '.{4}[A-Z]+') from dual;
> : but this returns only
> : St. L
>
> [A-Z] doesn't match o
Here a perl test I did to check out a maybe. @ is an array of your combos (did I get them all?) The loop goes thru each. $1 will contain the "last name".
@s = ("mc winter, first",
"mc. winter, first", "winter, first", "mc winter,first", "mc. winter,first", "winter,first", "mc winter first", "mc. winter first", "winter first",
);
foreach $x (@s) {
print qq/look at "$x"\n/;
{
$x =~ /(.*)?[, ]{1}[a-zA-Z]*$/;
print $1 . "\n";
}
}
Received on Tue Apr 29 2008 - 11:52:28 CDT