Revision as of 11:02, 28 October 2012

SUBSTR

SUBSTR allows you to extract part of a string.

   SUBSTR('Hello world', 2, 3) -> 'llo'

In this example you get the 2nd to 5th character from each country's name.

SELECT name,
       SUBSTRING(name, 2, 5)
  FROM bbc

SELECT name,
       SUBSTR(name, 2, 5)
  FROM bbc

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-In this example you put the region and the name together for each country.
+In this example you get the 2nd to 5th character from each country's name.
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 SELECT name,