Re: SQL question

my_string := substr(in_string,instr(in_string,'/',-1)+1);

>>> c-glenn.travis_at_wcom.com 05/01/01 04:36PM >>>
How would you take the same string "/dir1/dir2/test/file.out", and return "file.out". Assume you do not know where the last '/' is or how many there are. What I need is a reverse instr function. Find the last occurrance of '/', not the first.

Can it be done in sqlplus???

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