RE: String manipulation

[Feighery Raymond]

Title: String manipulation

select

substr(subject,1,instr(subject,'~')-1) first,

substr(subject,instr(subject,'~')+1, instr(subject,'~',1,2)-(instr(subject,'~'))-1) second,

substr(subject,instr(subject,'~',1,2)+1,length(subject)) third

from test_table

where test_column=1700455

/

 

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefick Ronald S Contr ESC/HRIDA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:29 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
210-565-2540

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