You may come across a situation, where you need alternate to the “like” keyword of SQL, that is to search for sub-strings in columns of the table.
The one way to achieve it to use instr() function, instr() function takes 3 parameters in account.
Syntax : instr( rank, string, sub_string )
- Rank: Integer type expression giving the position corresponding to the 1st character in the string from which the sub-string search begins.
- String: String is your text.
- sub_string: The substring which you are looking for.
The instr() returns 0 if it does not find the match.
Now how to apply this to the table? As the instr() function is of x3 so its simple to apply.
Eg : Filter[ZCT] Where instr(1,ALLOTEDTO,”Ram”) <> 0.
where 1 is the start position to look for sub-string, ALLOTEDTO is the column name which consists of the String and the last parameter is the sub-string itself. This will give you all records from the table where ALLOTEDTO column consists sub-string “Ram”
which is equivalent to.
Select * from ZCT where ALLOTEDTO like ‘%Ram%’.
Note: Instr() function is case-sensitive so always use the upper-case or lower-case function with it.
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