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Difference between SUBSTR and INSTR

  
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July 18, 2005 01:59:31   #1  
Nagarajan.R        

RE: Difference between SUBSTR and INSTR
INSTR (String1 String2(n (m))
INSTR returns the position of the mth occurrence of the string 2 in
string1. The search begins from nth position of string1.

SUBSTR (String1 n m)
SUBSTR returns a character string of size m in string1 starting from nth postion of string1.


 
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July 24, 2006 06:00:40   #2  
Shiv Mangal Rahi        

RE: Difference between SUBSTR and INSTR

Hi All

INSTR function finds the numeric starting position of a string within a string.

As eg.

Select INSTR('Mississippi' 'i' 3 3) test1

INSTR('Mississippi' 'i' 1 3) test2

INSTR('Mississippi' 'i' -2 3) test3

from dual;

Its output would be like this

Test1 Test2 Test3

___________________________________________

11 8 2

SUBSTR function returns the section of thte specified string specified by numeric character positions.

As eg.

Select SUBSTR('The Three Musketeers' 1 3) from dual;

will return 'The'.


 
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