Oracle string operation to exclude specific characters based on delimiter - oracle

From the String ES-123456-PSA Spain-101, I need to extract only ES-123456-101 Delimiter position is fixed.
Tried REGEXP_SUBSTR('ES-123456-PSA Spain-101','[^-]+',2,3 ) which gives PSA Spain.
Is there a way to ignore those specific characters and returns rest of them.

If you want ES-123456-101 then use this:
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('ES-123456-PSA Spain-101', '[^-]+-', '', 1, 3 )
FROM dual;
If you want ES-12345-101 then could you explain the logic for 12345 not 123456? Typo or omit the last character?

you can also use subtr and instr
with t as
(
select 'ES-123456-PSA Spain-101' as text from dual
)
select substr(text,1,instr(text,'-',1,2)) -- ES-123456-
||substr(text,instr(text,'-',1,3)+1) -- 101
from t

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REGEXP_LIKE Oracle equivalent to count characters in Snowflake

I am trying to come up with an equivalent of the below Oracle statement in Snowflake. This would check if the different parts of the string separated by '.' matches the number of characters in the REGEXP_LIKE expression. I have come up with a rudimentary version to perform the check in Snowflake but I am sure there's a better and cleaner way to do it. I am looking to come up with a one-liner regular expression check in Snowflake similar to Oracle. Appreciate your help!
-- Oracle
SELECT -- would return True
CASE
WHEN REGEXP_LIKE('AB.XYX.12.34.5670.89', '^\w{2}\.\w{3}\.\w{2}') THEN 'True'
ELSE NULL
END AS abc
FROM DUAL
-- Snowflake
SELECT -- would return True
REGEXP_LIKE(SPLIT_PART('AB.XYX.12.34.5670.89', '.', 1), '[A-Z0-9]{2}') AND
REGEXP_LIKE(SPLIT_PART('AB.XYX.12.34.5670.89', '.', 2), '[A-Z0-9]{3}') AND
REGEXP_LIKE(SPLIT_PART('AB.XYX.12.34.5670.89', '.', 3), '[A-Z0-9]{2}') AS abc
You need to add a .* at the end as the REGEXP_LIKE adds explicit ^ && $ to string:
The function implicitly anchors a pattern at both ends (i.e. '' automatically becomes '^$', and 'ABC' automatically becomes '^ABC$'). To match any string starting with ABC, the pattern would be 'ABC.*'.
select
column1 as str,
REGEXP_LIKE(str, '\\w{2}\\.\\w{3}\\.\\w{2}.*') as oracle_way
FROM VALUES
('AB.XYX.12.34.5670.89')
;
gives:
STR
ORACLE_WAY
AB.XYX.12.34.5670.89
TRUE
Or in the context of your question:
SELECT IFF(REGEXP_LIKE('AB.XYX.12.34.5670.89', '\\w{2}\\.\\w{3}\\.\\w{2}.*'), 'True', null) AS abc;
Your use of \w seems to suggest you don't need delimited strings to be strictly [A-Z0-9] since word characters allow underscore and period. If all bets were off and the only requirement was to have . at 3rd, 7th and 10th position, you could have used like this way.
select 'AB.XGH.12.34.5670.89' like '__.___.__.%' ;

Oracle regex_replace not working as expected

I have following SQL query (Oracle 18c):
SELECT
--FIRST
translate(
' sOmE tEsT
eNdOfLiNe',
chr(10)||chr(11)||chr(13), 'replText'
) "Result1",
--SECOND
regexp_replace(
' sOmE tEsT
eNdOfLiNe',
'[\x0A|\x0B|`\x0D]', 'replText'
) "Result2",
--THIRD
regexp_replace(
' sOmE tEsT
eNdOfLiNe',
'[\r\n\t]', 'replText', 1, 0
) "Result3"
FROM dual
What I would like to do is replace all tabs, return carriages and new line indicators with new string but it seems like regexp replace is not working (returns initial text). I am really sorry about formatting but I need to handle text in exact format as above with \r \n \t mixed chars.
Here is fiddle: https://dbfiddle.uk/?rdbms=oracle_18&fiddle=63834f9bcab93136635366f18c375b13
I am learning Oracle right now and don't understand why second and third solution returns initial text. The first solution seems to work but I would like to achieve the same effect in SECOND and THIRD solution. What I missed?
I'm pretty sure Oracle does not allow escape sequences in a character class. I believe this is what you have to do. In response to your comment on another answer here and as you are learning, regex is most definitely not regex. Especially Oracle's implementation.
EDIT to explain the regex: The regex pattern is building a string of a regex character class containing 3 characters, hence the concatenation. You can't just have escape characters in the regex as then regex would take those characters as part of the character class pattern itself.
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE(
' sOmE tEsT
eNdOfLiNe', '['||CHR(9)||CHR(10)||CHR(13)||']', 'X') Result3
FROM dual;
RESULT3
------------------------------
sOmE tEsTXXXXXXXX eNdOfLiNe
1 row selected.
You can try the below using similar format as translate
select regexp_replace(
' sOmE tEsT
eNdOfLiNe',
chr(10)||'|'||chr(11)||'|'||chr(13), 'replText') "Result3"
FROM dual

REGEXP_SUBSTR for portion of string

I would like to get:
82961_01B04WZXQQSUGJ4YMRRT2A7TRHK_MR_2_1of1
from the following expression
LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_82961_01B04WZXQQSUGJ4YMRRT2A7TRHK_MR_2_1of1
Does someone know how I can get this using regexp_substr ?
EDIT
Basically I have a field which has 7 sets each separated by _ . The string I gave is just one example. I wanted to retrieve everything after the second _ . There is no fixed character length so I can not use a substr function. Hence I was using regexp_substr. I was able to get away by using a simplified version
Select FILE_NAME, ( (REGEXP_SUBSTR(FILE_NAME,'[^_]+_',1,3)) ||
(REGEXP_SUBSTR(FILE_NAME,'[^_]+_',1,4)) ||
(REGEXP_SUBSTR(FILE_NAME,'[^_]+_',1,5)) ||
(REGEXP_SUBSTR(FILE_NAME,'[^_]+_',1,6)) ||
(REGEXP_SUBSTR(FILE_NAME,'[^_]+',1,7)) ) as RegExp
from tbl
Here is some more data from the FILE_NAME field
LAST_FIRST_82961_01B04WZXQQSUGJ4YMRRT2A7TRHK_MR_2_1of1
SMITH_JOHN_82961_0130BPQX9QZN9G4P5RDTPA9HR4R_MR_1_1of1
LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_99999_01V0MU4XUQK0Y24Y9RYTFA7W1CM_MR_3_1of1
To get everything after the second underscore, you do not need regular expressions, but can use something like the following:
select substr(FILE_NAME, instr(FILE_NAME, '_', 1, 2) +1 ) from tbl
The instr returns the position of the second occurrence of '_', starting by the first character; the substr simply gets everything starting from the position given by instr + 1
From your Requirement, you can just go ahead and use the simple SUBSTRfunction. Its faster, and it addresses the simple need to remove the String LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME.
select substr('LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_82961_01B04WZXQQSUGJ4YMRRT2A7TRHK_MR_2_1of1', 20) data_string
from dual;
Output:
data_string
-----------------
82961_01B04WZXQQSUGJ4YMRRT2A7TRHK_MR_2_1of1
Unless you have another underlying logic you need to address?
Kindly clarify so i can edit the answer accordingly.

Can't trim the string in Oracle

I have a string IN-123456; now I need to trim the IN- from that string. I tried as in Oracle
select trim('IN-' from 'IN-123456) from dual;
but I get an error
ORA-30001: trim set should have only one character
30001. 00000 - "trim set should have only one character"
*Cause: Trim set contains more or less than 1 character. This is not
allowed in TRIM function.
How can I solve this?
A simple replace wouldn't do the trick?
select replace('IN-123456', 'IN-', '') from dual;
Thanks for the result...
It can be solved with LTRIM() function
Clearly, TRIM is not the correct function for the job. You need to REPLACE the (sub)string IN- with nothing:
SELECT REPLACE('IN-123456', 'IN-') FROM dual;
Be aware that this will replace all occurrences of IN- anywhere in the string. If that's not appropriate, but the IN- will always be at the start of the string, then you could use SUBSTR instead:
SELECT SUBSTR('IN-123456', 4) FROM dual;
you just forget to complete single quote
select trim('IN-' from 'IN-123456') from dual;
now try this
Trim Function is always remove one char from string
Here is the example -
SELECT TRIM(both 'P' FROM 'PHELLO WORLDP') FROM DUAL
Out put -HELLO WORLD
You may use LEADING /TRAILING insert of Both.
In your case "IN-" holding three char.

Oracle: Pattern for to_char(number) to add additional ascii characters?

Using the Oracle to_char(number) function, is it possible to append ascii characters to the returned string?
Specifically, I need to add a percentage character to the returned string.
"select to_char(89.2244, '999G999G999G999G990D00') from dual" -->
returns "89.22". I need a format pattern that returns "89.22%".
I am using this through reports in Application Express, so cannot simply concatenate "%" to the query, i need to put it in the number format.
So you can't wrap the to_char with a CONCAT?
select concat(to_char(89.2244, '999G999G999G999G990D00'),'%') from dual
You can't do it right in the number format.
If you are able to change NLS_CURRENCY for you session, you can do the following:
SELECT TO_CHAR(1.2, '999G999G999G999G990D00L' /*, 'NLS_CURRENCY=%' */)
FROM dual
---
1,20%
Quick and dirty way:
select to_char(89.2244, '999G999G999G999G990D00L', 'NLS_CURRENCY=''%''') from dual;
SYS # orant11g >select to_char(89.2244, '999G999G999G999G990D00')||'%' from dual;
TO_CHAR(89.2244,'999G999
------------------------
89.22%
Just use the || bars instead of the concat function.

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