Thanks for your response Tom
As the 2 amounts can range in length from 4 to 12 your response will need some tweaking
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom E Stieger
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:31 PM
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Subject: RE: Use SQL to retrieve 2 numerical amounts and the difference betweenthem from one field
Alan-
Does this work?
With Vals as
(Select
DEC(substr(field1,locate(xxxxxxxxxx)+12,locate(yyyyyyyyyy-2)),12,2) as xVal,
DEC(substr(field1,locate(yyyyyyyyyy)+12)),12,2) as yVal
From filea)
Select xVal, yVal, xVal - yVal as Diff from Vals
You will probably have to play with the value to add or subtract after the locate. I always get the positioning incorrect on the first try.
-Tom Stieger
IT Manager
California Fine Wire
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Shore
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:00 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Use SQL to retrieve 2 numerical amounts and the difference betweenthem from one field
Afternoon all
I'm having a brain freeze (well, more so than usual) I have a file
(FILEA) with a field (FIELD1) that contains data like xxxxxxxxxx 9912.43 yyyyyyyyyy 46.03 where xxxxxxxxxx will ALWAYS be the same value and yyyyyyyyyy will ALWAYS be the same value (but different from xxxxxxxxxx) Each of the above amounts can range from 0.00 thru 9999999999.99 Here is what I am having a problem with.
Using SQL how can I separate the 2 amounts AND calculate the difference between them
Alan Shore
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