Yeah, I was sort of heading that route. But I would also like to determine a count of the numbers in a string too. Certainly the
query is doable, but it's unwieldy.
What I have so far:
SELECT fld, @FLDLEN:=char_length(fld) fld_len,
@FLDLEN-char_length(replace(fld,'o',''))[EMAIL PROTECTED](replace(fld,'a',''))[EMAIL PROTECTED](replace(fld,'e',''))[EMAIL PROTECTED](replace(fld,'i',''))[EMAIL PROTECTED](replace(fld,'u',''))
fld_vow_cnt FROM table
It works, but it's not the most readable query.
Thanks
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From: "Barry Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Determining number of vowels in a string
I'd rather do it in a sql statement rather than using a scripting language.
I'm thinking you might be able to do one select, accumulating 5 siubstring counts (a,e,i,o,u) into 5 variables, and then sum the
counts? I'll leave the testing to you. . .:-)
Barry Newton
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