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Use "POS" to find the /

Dan wrote:

Time to hit the SQL guru well again. ;-)

I have a name field that has, as an example, "DOE, JOHN A 12/AL/PMZ "

The "12/AL/PMZ" will always occur after the name (can't guarantee the number
of spaces separating the two), and will always follow the pattern
"nn/AA/AAA", where "nn" is a 2-digit number, and "AA/AAA" is always
upper-cased alpha. When and if such a pattern is found, I need to replace
it with blanks. The way I would search for this would use:
LIKE '% __/__/___%'
Even though the underscores represent any single character, I can't imagine
I would ever find it in a real name in my data. But even if I use this, how
would I then replace the string with blanks?

FWIW, this is on V5R4.

TIA,
Dan



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