RE: Number of particular characters in a given string?

  • From: "Rudy Zung" <Rudy.Zung@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <dba.orcl@xxxxxxxxx>, "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:59:23 -0500

I don't think Oracle has a built-in function for that, but you can =
cobble one
together with:
   length(myString) - nvl(length(replace(myString, 'O')), 0)

...Rudy


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Subject: Number of particular characters in a given string?


Is there any Oracle pre-defined fucntion to calculate number of given
characters IN a given string?

For example, I want to know how many "O"s in string 'CORPORATE FLOOR'.

Thanks
Sami
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