I am using SAS PROC SQL to extract data from an ORACLE data base. I believe that I need to find an ORACLE equivalent to the SAS SCAN command, since the SAS SCAN command doesn't work in the part of the code which is transferred to and executed in the ORACLE database.
For example, if the variable named ID has a value of
abc_de_fghijk
then in a SAS data step the command str=scan(id,2,'_'); will extract the text string 'de' from ID.
Is there an equivalent command that I can use in ORACLE? THanks!
You could have a look at:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B12037_01/server.101/b10759/functions116.htm
The regexp_substr() function seems to be a good fit.
I haven't tried it, but looks like you may need to combine INSTR() or CHARINDEX() to look up the position of the ith underscore, with SUBSTRING().
You could have a look at:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B12037_01/server.101/b10759/functions116.htm
The regexp_substr() function seems to be a good fit.
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