Re: find out how many times particular character occur in given string.

Michel Cadot wrote,on my timestamp of 11/12/2008 3:34 AM:
> "Sanjeev" <sanjeev.atvankar_at_gmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 6e2ea0b9-5782-4945-962c-5c7de86dde9b_at_k36g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
> | Dear Gurus,
> |
> | I want to find out how many times particular character occur in
> | given string.
> | e.g. 'A*B*C*D*E*F' count of '*' is 5
> | 'A*B*C*D' count of '*' is 3
> | 'A' count of '*' is 0
> |
> | Is there any function available in SQL to find out the above
> | requirement ?
> |
> | Could anyone help me in above?
> |
> | Thanking in advance
> | Sanjeev
>
> SQL> def str='A*B*C*D*E*F'
> SQL> def car='*'
> SQL> select length('&str')-length(replace('&str','&car')) nb from dual;
> NB
> ----------
> 5
>
> 1 row selected.
>
> SQL> def str='A*B*C*D'
> SQL> /
> NB
> ----------
> 3
>
> 1 row selected.
>
> SQL> def str='A'
> SQL> /
> NB
> ----------
> 0
>
> 1 row selected.

BINGO! :) Received on Thu Dec 11 2008 - 05:37:18 CST