You cannot. SPARQL is based on pattern matching. But why would you need to? Maybe back up and explain that.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 6:32 AM ganesh chandra <ganesh.umesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks fo the solution. I was hoping if there was some way we can write > something iterative in the query. > > Thanks, > Ganesh > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 9:28 PM Paul Tyson <phty...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 17:27 -0700, ganesh chandra wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > My data looks something like this: > > > <http://www.example.com/example/123456789> a something:Entity ; > > > something:privateData [ a something:PrivateData ; > > > something:jsonContent "{\"fileType\": \”jp\"}"^^xsd:string ; > > > something:modeData [a something:data1 > > > system:code 1234] > > > something:system <http://www.test.edu/fileType> ] ; > > > > > > There are many like the above one and I am trying to write the query to > > delete all the data if the id matches. How I should I go about doing this? > > > > > > > If the data is always in this shape, something like this should work: > > > > prefix something: <http://something.example.org> > > prefix system: <http://system.example.org> > > DELETE WHERE { > > <http://www.example.com/example/123456789> a something:Entity ; > > something:privateData ?_a. > > ?_a a something:PrivateData ; > > something:jsonContent ?json ; > > something:modeData ?_b; > > something:system ?filetype . > > ?_b a something:data1; > > system:code ?code. > > } > > > > This just replaces the blank nodes with sparql variables. > > > > It's a good idea to test DELETE updates thoroughly, because they can > > often cause surprises. One way to see what will be deleted is to change > > the DELETE to SELECT and run it as a query. That will show you exactly > > what triples will be deleted. > > > > Regards, > > --Paul > > > > > > -- > Ganesh Chandra S
