7.30 STREXT

Use the @STREXT function to extract a portion of a string.

For this function, Oracle GoldenGate supports the use of an escape sequence to represent characters in a string column in Unicode or in the native character encoding of the Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems. The target column must be a SQL Unicode data type if any argument is supplied as Unicode.

This function does not support NCHAR or NVARCHAR data types.

Syntax

@STREXT (string, begin_position, end_position)

string

The string from which to extract. The string can be either the name of a character column or a literal string. Enclose literals within single quote marks.

begin_position

The byte position at which to begin extracting.

end_position

The byte position at which to end extracting. The end position is included in the extraction.

Example

The following example uses three @STREXT functions to extract a phone number into three different columns.

AREA_CODE = @STREXT (PHONE, 1, 3),
PREFIX = @STREXT (PHONE, 4, 6),
PHONE_NO = @STREXT (PHONE, 7, 10)