On 7/7/06, T E Schmitz <mailreg@numerixtechnology.de> wrote:
> I would like to split the contents of a column using substring with a
> regular expression:
>
> SELECT
> substring (NAME, '^\\d+mm') as BASE_NAME,
> substring (NAME, ??? ) as SUFFIX
> FROM MODEL
>
> The column contains something like
> "150mm LD AD Asp XR Macro"
> I want to split this into
> "150mm", "LD AD Asp XR Macro"
>
> How can I extract the bit following the matching substring?
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
I'm sure there's a cleaner, regexp based approach, but how about:
SELECT
substring (NAME, '^\\d+mm') AS BASE_NAME ,
substr( NAME , char_length( substring (NAME, '^\\d+mm') ) + 2
) AS SUFFIX
FROM MODEL
Regards,
Rodrigo
