RE: String manipulation

From: Nikhil Khimani <nkhimani_at_marketaxess.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 05:14:30 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005DE336.20040127051430@fatcity.com>

Message

If you have a way to work this out in shell then there is a simpler solution ...

$ export VAR='mystr1~mystr2~mystr3'
$ echo $VAR
mystr1~mystr2~mystr3
$ echo $VAR | tr '~' '\012'
mystr1
mystr2
mystr3
$

HTH,

Nikhil

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefick Ronald S Contr ESC/HRIDA [mailto:Ronald.Stefick@RANDOLPH.AF.MIL]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 3:29 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: String manipulation

I'm trying to separate a string into 3 values:
The string is:
mystr1~mystr2~mystr3

Here is the code so far:
1 select substr(subject,1,instr(subject,'~')-1) first,
2 substr(subject,instr(subject,'~')+1, instr(subject,'~',1,2)-1) second,
3 substr(subject,instr(subject,'~',1,2)+1,length(subject))
4 from test_table
5 where test_column=1700455

The result I get is:
mystr1
mystr2~mystr3
mystr3

The result I want is:
mystr1
mystr2
Mystr3

TIA,

Scott Stefick
MILPDS OCP Oracle DBA
scott.stefick@randolph.af.mil
210-565-2540

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