Re: [sqlite] last occurrence of /*

2019-12-07 Thread x
; From: sqlite-users on behalf of Bart Smissaert Sent: Friday, December 6, 2019 11:59:06 PM To: SQLite mailing list Subject: Re: [sqlite] last occurrence of /* I think it can be done. Just dealing with the forward slash. RBS On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 11:49 PM Simon Slavin wrote

Re: [sqlite] last occurrence of /*

2019-12-06 Thread Simon Slavin
On 6 Dec 2019, at 11:59pm, Bart Smissaert wrote: > I think it can be done. > Just dealing with the forward slash. Then use replace(X,Y,Z) to replace '/*' with something else before you do whatever you were intending to do. ___ sqlite-users mailing

Re: [sqlite] last occurrence of /*

2019-12-06 Thread Bart Smissaert
I think it can be done. Just dealing with the forward slash. RBS On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 11:49 PM Simon Slavin wrote: > On 6 Dec 2019, at 11:00pm, Bart Smissaert > wrote: > > > How do I select the part of this statement starting with the last /* ? > > Not in SQLite. Do it in your code, or

Re: [sqlite] last occurrence of /*

2019-12-06 Thread Bart Smissaert
I can do it in code. This is B4A on Android phone. For that reason can't do UDF's or extensions. This postcode thing was just a simple example, not to do with comment issue. RBS On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 11:48 PM Scott Robison wrote: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 4:31 PM Bart Smissaert > wrote: > > > I

Re: [sqlite] last occurrence of /*

2019-12-06 Thread Simon Slavin
On 6 Dec 2019, at 11:00pm, Bart Smissaert wrote: > How do I select the part of this statement starting with the last /* ? Not in SQLite. Do it in your code, or write your own function to do it and load this function into SQLite. ___ sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] last occurrence of /*

2019-12-06 Thread Scott Robison
On Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 4:31 PM Bart Smissaert wrote: > I know I can do something like this: > > select replace(postcode, rtrim(postcode, replace(postcode, ' ', '')), '') > from addresses > > which will get the part of the postcode starting with the space. > Problem however is how to deal with the

Re: [sqlite] last occurrence of /*

2019-12-06 Thread Bart Smissaert
I know I can do something like this: select replace(postcode, rtrim(postcode, replace(postcode, ' ', '')), '') from addresses which will get the part of the postcode starting with the space. Problem however is how to deal with the forward slash. RBS On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 11:09 PM Scott

Re: [sqlite] last occurrence of /*

2019-12-06 Thread Scott Robison
On Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 4:00 PM Bart Smissaert wrote: > Have table with SQL statements and these statements may have comments, > starting with /* > How do I select the part of this statement starting with the last /* ? > So if the statement is: > select field1 /*comment 1 */ from table1 /*comment