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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I need to convert string to decimals.
So the string value is: 89,333,22.2345
So i want to keep all decimal places and convert it to: 8933322.2345.
I tried the following query:
select to_number(replace(nvl(89,333,22.2345),0),',','') from dual;
This rounds it to 893322. But i want result with all decimals:
If i try running this query:
select to_number((replace(nvl(89,333,22.2345),0),',',''),'9999.99') from dual;
it throws error.
Try this:
select to_number('89,333,22.2345','99,999,99.9999') from dual;
I think you're passing the number as a parameter. Otherwise why would you use nvl. Then I see the query you need is going to be similar like that
select to_number(replace(nvl('89,333,22.2345','0'),',','')) from dual;
Things were wrong at your code:
since number is a varchar, it has to be placed between apostrophes
nvl takes parameters divided by a comma. And there was one closing bracket too much
nvl(89,333,22.2345),0) -> nvl('89,333,22.2345',0)
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
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.
This is a oracle output records with pipe delimiter
04/22/2015|695|1074795|CRUSE|AXDE|01/29/1963|88359|||||
I want to change like this
"04/22/2015"|"695"|"1074795"|"CRUSE"|"AXDE"|"01/29/1963"|"88359"|||||
What is the query in Perl?
I want to change like this
"04/22/2015"|"695"|"1074795"|"CRUSE"|"AXDE"|"01/29/1963"|"88359"|||||
I won't say this is an elegant way to do it, since it is always better to fix the source itself. In your case, whatever is generating the output, you could simply concatenate the double-quotation marks to the column names.
Anyway, you could do it in SQL using REPLACE and RTRIM:
SQL> WITH DATA AS(
2 SELECT '04/22/2015|695|1074795|CRUSE|AXDE|01/29/1963|88359|||||' str FROM dual
3 )
4 SELECT '"'||rtrim(REPLACE(REPLACE(str, '|', '"|"'), '""',''),'"') str FROM DATA;
STR
---------------------------------------------------------------------
"04/22/2015"|"695"|"1074795"|"CRUSE"|"AXDE"|"01/29/1963"|"88359"|||||
SQL>
check this
select '"04/22/2015"|"695"|"1074795"|"CRUSE"|"AXDE"|"01/29/1963"|"88359"|||||' as str from dual
STR
---------------------------------------------------------------------
"04/22/2015"|"695"|"1074795"|"CRUSE"|"AXDE"|"01/29/1963"|"88359"|||||
Why is Oracle's to_char() function adding spaces?
select length('012'),
length(to_char('012')),
length(to_char('12', '000'))
from dual;
3, 3, 4
The extra leading space is for the potential minus sign. To remove the space you can use FM in the format:
SQL> select to_char(12,'FM000') from dual;
TO_C
----
012
By the way, note that to_char takes a NUMBER argument; to_char('012') is implicitly converted to to_char(to_number('012')) = to_char(12)
To make the answers given more clear:
select '['||to_char(12, '000')||']',
'['||to_char(-12, '000')||']',
'['||to_char(12,'FM000')||']'
from dual
[ 012] [-012] [012]
The format mask that you are using is fixed width and allows for a minus sign
Be aware when using the 'fm' syntax it will not include any values after the decimal place unless specified using zeros. For example:
SELECT TO_CHAR(12345, 'fm99,999.00') FROM dual
returns: '12,345.00'
SELECT TO_CHAR(12345, 'fm99,999.99') FROM dual
returns: '12,345.'
As you can see this would be an issue if you are expecting two zeros after the decimals place (maybe in fee reports for example).