RE: String manipulation

[Nikhil Khimani]

Title: Message

If you have a way to work this out in shell then there is a simpler solution ...

 

$ export VAR='mystr1~mystr2~mystr3'
$ echo $VAR
mystr1~mystr2~mystr3
$ echo $VAR | tr '~' '\012'
mystr1
mystr2
mystr3
$

HTH,

Nikhil 

 -----Original Message-----
From: Stefick Ronald S Contr ESC/HRIDA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 3:29 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