How to get the substring value from a column with data?

[ddrozdov]

Yeah _faq, pay attention to example above. What's up with that?
DaPi used initcap for specific purpose.

[oracle_faq]

Sorry wrong thought process took me somewhere else only.

[aspdba]

Originally posted by DaPi
translate(initcap(column),
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
Will deal with any number of names - but I feel there must be a neater way . . .

you are something..!!!

 create table test_to_del
 (
 name varchar2(20)
 );

 insert into test_to_del values ('saM len');
  insert into test_to_del values ('a b');
   insert into test_to_del values ('q v');

select replace(translate(initcap(name),
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'),' ','')
from test_to_del;


REPLACE(TRANSLATE(IN
--------------------
SL
AB
QV

drop table test_to_del; 

[bsuroop]

Originally posted by rshivagami
select substr(names,1,1) || substr(names, instr(names,' ')+1,1) from tablename;

You might want to add a decode before the second concatenation to check if there is a space.

Thanks shivagami,
but I am not able to get the correct output.can you pls show me how it works by using the decode.
For instance samantha Mary - it should display the initial as SM
but as per the above query it is displaying only S

Thanks a lot
Kishan

[bsuroop]

Originally posted by aspdba
you are something..!!!

 create table test_to_del
 (
 name varchar2(20)
 );

 insert into test_to_del values ('saM len');
  insert into test_to_del values ('a b');
   insert into test_to_del values ('q v');

select replace(translate(initcap(name),
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz',
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'),' ','')
from test_to_del;


REPLACE(TRANSLATE(IN
--------------------
SL
AB
QV

drop table test_to_del; 

Thanks DAPI. It's Excellent.

Kishan

[ddrozdov]

Kishan, are you saying mine and shivagami's code did not work? (they are identical)
Are you sure you were not running some other code?
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