Question

I’ve a column which contains strings

like

id fruit

1  apple
2  mango
3  banana
4  grapes
5  watermelon

I need to iterate through the fruit row to find out where is ascii value of a which is 97.

like in id=1 apple contains 'a'=97 so i want to print the position of character a in all
rows by comparing it with ascii value 97.

can anybody tell me how to iterate through each row to compare with ascii value 97?

Answer 1

SELECT CHARINDEX((CHAR(97), fruit)
FROM MyTable

This uses the CHARINDEX function, which gives the first position of a character within a string, and the CHAR() function, which returns a character assigned to the ascii value given.