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Re: Drop everything after slash in 'foo/bar' in SQL ?

From: Richard Kuhler <noone_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:26:42 GMT
Message-ID: <mqRb9.56569$_7.7405577@twister.socal.rr.com>


select substr('foo/bar', 1, instr('foo/bar' || '/', '/') - 1) from dual

Richard

Emmett wrote:
>
> Is it possible to select only the foo part of 'foo/bar'
> in SQL?
>
> How ;-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> em
Received on Fri Aug 30 2002 - 16:26:42 CDT

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