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Re: Find last occurance of character

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 2 Jun 2005 11:07:56 -0700
Message-ID: <1117735676.596175.55500@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 





is there a way (using oracle functions) to find last occurance of
character w/o writing a recursive function?



e.g. select XXXX('ooozo','o') from dual


would return 5



Thanks.



You can use INSTR with a -1 as last parameter
Received on Thu Jun 02 2005 - 13:07:56 CDT












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