Substring extraction from a given string, Oracle

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I need to extract a string from a given set of string. The string given is :

Data string 1 : LOAD TEST ABC,2146520,9856452147
Data string 2 : LOAD TEST:804749:9756325874

Here, the string set has a static value "LOAD TEST ABC" and "LOAD TEST", here i need to extract the string from the middle 2146520 and 804749 as an Id.

Tim Biegeleisen · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-15 11:42:05Z

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You might be able to use REGEXP_SUBSTR here with a capture group:

SELECT col, REGEXP_SUBSTR(col, '[,:](.+?)[,:]', 1, 1, NULL, 1) AS middle_num
FROM yourTable;

Demo

answered Oct 15, 2020 at 11:42

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