RE: find pattern and replace with blanks

Dan,

You need a User Defined Function (UDF). Either in SQL, or RPGLE....

Then your sql would simply be

Select myudf(fld1) as cleanedText from tbl

Check out the redbook "Stored Procedures, Triggers, and User-Defined Functions on DB2 Universal
Database for iSeries"

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246503.html?Open

HTH,

Charles Wilt
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Software Engineer
CINTAS Corporation - IT 92B
513.701.1307

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:20 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: SQL: find pattern and replace with blanks

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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