Question

I have a column called location and it has data in it like:

texas_dallas
florida_miami

I am trying to create a SQL statement that will get rid of the _ and reverse the order so that I get:

dallas texas
miami florida

So far I have this statement which seems to get rid of the underscore and gives me only the entry before the _.

SELECT SUBSTR(location, 1 , INSTR(location, ‘_’)-1 ) AS output from general;

I am having some trouble figuring out the rest of what I need to do.

Answer 1

EDIT Corrected order of output.

SQL> with general as (select 'texas_dallas' as location from dual
  2      union all select 'florida_miami' from dual)
  3  select substr(location, instr(location, '_') + 1)
  4      || ' ' || SUBSTR(location, 1 , INSTR(location, '_') -1) AS output
  5  from general;

OUTPUT
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dallas texas
miami florida