Question

I have a situation where I need to extract information from a sql table row.
A typical string looks like,

RMR*AZ*10001312**119.76

where RMR is the key to identify the row. I need to extract information between second and third *, i.e. 10001312 and after fourth one i.e. is 119.76

This information will be populated in a table.

How could I achieve this?

Answer 1

An example done in SQL server, which may help you.

declare @myString varchar(50)
set @myString = 'sadfa*lkj*234r2*'

declare @startPosition int
declare @endPosition int

--First * location
select @startPosition = Charindex('*', @myString, 0)

--Second * location
select @endPosition = Charindex('*', @myString, @startPosition+1)
select @endPosition 

select substring(@myString, 
    @startPosition +1 ,
    @endPosition - @startPosition -1)