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Re: Search in string from right

From: <marpe1974_at_yahoo.se>
Date: 18 Apr 2006 04:31:13 -0700
Message-ID: <1145359873.410896.167190@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>


Thanks Sybrand!

It works fine by setting a negative position as the start parameter:

SELECT SUBSTR(RESOURCESTRING,1,INSTR(RESOURCESTRING , '-', -1)-1) FROM FSA.ACCESSLOG
WHERE INSTR(RESOURCESTRING , '-')>0 AND TYPE=2 AND RESOURCETYPE=1 Happy, happy, happy! Received on Tue Apr 18 2006 - 06:31:13 CDT

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