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I have to replace first 3 digits of a column to a fix first 3 digits (123)
Working SQL Server code. (Not working on AWS RedShift)
Code:
Select
Stuff (ColName,1,3,'123')as NewColName
From DataBase.dbo.TableName
eg 1 -Input --- 8010001802000000000209092396---output -1230001802000000000209092396
eg 2 -Input --- 555209092396- --output -123209092396
it should replace the first 3 digits to 123 irrespective of its length.
Please advice anything that is supported in AWS Redshift.
yet trying using substring and repalce.
I see that AWS RedShift was based on an old version of Postgres, and I looked up the SUBSTRING function for you (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_SUBSTRING.html), which is pretty forgiving of its argument values.
In this sample in Transact-SQL, and as documented for RedShift, the third argument of SUBSTRING can be much longer than the actual strings without causing an error. In Transact-SQL, even the second argument is "forgiving" if it starts after the end of the actual string:
;
WITH RawData AS
(SELECT * FROM (VALUES ('8010001802000000000209092396'),
('555209092396'),
('AB')
) AS X(InputString)
)
SELECT InputString, '123' + SUBSTRING(InputString, 4, 1000) AS OutputString
FROM RawData
InputString OutputString
8010001802000000000209092396 1230001802000000000209092396
555209092396 123209092396
AB 123
As it appears that the concatenation operator in Redshift is ||, I think your expression will be very close to:
'123' || SUBSTRING(InputString, 4, 1000)
Got this and it worked
--Using Substring and concat
Select
cast('123'+substring(ColName,4,LEN(ColName)) as numeric (28)) as NewColName
From DataBase.dbo.TableName
I previously had help here for an Regexp expression in oracle sql which worked great.However, our place is converting to Big Query and the regexp does not seem to be working anymore.
In my tables, i have the following data
WC 12/10 change FC from 24 to 32
W/C 12/10 change fc from 401 to 340
W/C12/10 18-26
This oracle sql would have split the table up to give me the before number (24) and (32) and (12/10).
cast(REGEXP_SUBSTR(Line_Comment, '((\d+ |\d+)(change )?(- |-|to |to|too|too )(\d+))', 1, 1, 'i',2) as Int) as Before,
cast(REGEXP_SUBSTR(Line_Comment, '((\d+ |\d+)(change )?(- |-|to |to|too|too )(\d+))', 1, 1, 'i', 5) as Int) as After,
REGEXP_SUBSTR(Line_Comment, '((\d+)(\/|-|.| )(\d+)(\/|-|.| )(\d+))|(\d+)(\/|-|.| )(\d+)', 1, 1, 'i') as WC_Date,
Totally understand that comments are not consistent and may not work but if it works more than 80% of the time which it has then we are fine with this.
Since moving to big query, I'm getting this error message. In oracle, the tables were in varchar but in big query when they migrated it, its now in strings. Could this be the reason why its broken?Is there anyone who can help with this?This is way over my head.
No matching signature for function REGEXP_SUBSTR for argument types:
STRING, STRING, INT64, INT64, STRING, INT64. Supported signatures:
REGEXP_SUBSTR(STRING, STRING, [INT64], [INT64]); REGEXP_SUBSTR(BYTES,
BYTES, [INT64], [INT64]) at [69:12]
Since google bigquery REGEXP_SUBSTR doesn't support the subexpr parameter of Oracle's REGEXP_SUBSTR, you need to modify your regexes to take advantage of the fact that:
If the regular expression contains a capturing group, the function returns the substring that is matched by that capturing group.
So for each value you are trying to extract, you need to make that the only capturing group in the regex:
cast(REGEXP_SUBSTR(Line_Comment, '(?:(\d+ |\d+)(?:change )?(?:- |-|to |to|too|too )(?:\d+))', 1, 1) as Int) as Before,
cast(REGEXP_SUBSTR(Line_Comment, '(?:(?:\d+ |\d+)(?:change )?(?:- |-|to |to|too|too )(\d+))', 1, 1) as Int) as After,
REGEXP_SUBSTR(Line_Comment, '((?:\d+)(?:\/|-|.| )(?:\d+)(?:\/|-|.| )(?:\d+))|((?:\d+)(?:\/|-|.| )(?:\d+))', 1, 1) as WC_Date,
Note you can substantially simplify your regexes as below:
(\d+) ?(?:change )?(?:-|too?) ?(?:\d+)
(?:\d+) ?(?:change )?(?:-|too?) ?(\d+)
(?:\d+)(?:[\/.-](?:\d+)){1,2}
Regex demos on regex101: numbers, date
Based on the sample data you provided in the comment section, you can try below query:
with t1 as (
select 'WC 12/10 change FC from 24 to 32' as Comment
union all select 'W/C 12/10 change fc from 401 to 340' as Comment,
union all select 'W/C12/10 18-26' as Comment
)
select Comment,
regexp_extract(t1.Comment, r'(\d+\/\d+)') as WC,
regexp_extract(t1.Comment, r'.+\s(\d{1,3})[\s|\-]') as Before,
regexp_extract(t1.Comment, r'.+[\sto\s|\-](\d{1,3})$') as After
from t1
Output:
Consider below super simple approach
select Comment,
format('%s/%s', arr[offset(0)], arr[safe_offset(1)]) as wc,
arr[safe_offset(2)] as before,
arr[safe_offset(3)] as after
from your_table, unnest([struct(regexp_extract_all(Comment, r'\d+') as arr)])
if applied to sample data in your question - output is
IDENTIFIER
31-03-2022_13636075
01-04-2022_13650262
04-04-2022_13663174
05-04-2022_13672025
20220099001
11614491_R
10781198
00000000000
11283627_P
11614491_R
-1
how can i remove (only) the "XX-XX-XXXXX_" Part in certain values of a column in SSIS but WITHOUT affecting values that doesn't have this format? For example "21-05-2022_12345678" = "12345678" but the other values i don't want them affected. This are just examples of many rows from this column so i want only the ones that have this format to be affected.
SELECT REVERSE(substring(REVERSE('09-03-2022_13481330'),0,CHARINDEX('_',REVERSE('09-03-2022_13481330'),0)))
result
13481330
but this also affects others values.Also this is in ssms not ssis because i am not sure how to transform this expression in ssis code.
Update : Corrected code in SSIS goes as following:
(FINDSTRING(IDENTIFIER,"__-__-____[_]",1) == 1) ? SUBSTRING(IIDENTIFIER,12,LEN(IDENTIFIER) - 11) : IDENTIFIER
Do you have access to the SQL source? You can do this on the sql by using a LIKE and crafting a match pattern using the single char wildcard _ please see below example
DECLARE #Value VARCHAR(50) = '09-03-2022_13481330'
SELECT CASE WHEN #Value LIKE '__-__-____[_]%' THEN
SUBSTRING(#Value,12,LEN(#Value)-11) ELSE #Value END
Please see the Microsoft Documentation on LIKE and using single char wildcards
If you don't have access to the source SQL it gets a bit more tricky as you might need to use regex in a script task or maybe there is a expression you can apply
I'd like to use a regular expression in sqlite, but I don't know how.
My table has got a column with strings like this: "3,12,13,14,19,28,32"
Now if I type "where x LIKE '3'" I also get the rows which contain values like 13 or 32,
but I'd like to get only the rows which have exactly the value 3 in that string.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
As others pointed out already, REGEXP calls a user defined function which must first be defined and loaded into the the database. Maybe some sqlite distributions or GUI tools include it by default, but my Ubuntu install did not. The solution was
sudo apt-get install sqlite3-pcre
which implements Perl regular expressions in a loadable module in /usr/lib/sqlite3/pcre.so
To be able to use it, you have to load it each time you open the database:
.load /usr/lib/sqlite3/pcre.so
Or you could put that line into your ~/.sqliterc.
Now you can query like this:
SELECT fld FROM tbl WHERE fld REGEXP '\b3\b';
If you want to query directly from the command-line, you can use the -cmd switch to load the library before your SQL:
sqlite3 "$filename" -cmd ".load /usr/lib/sqlite3/pcre.so" "SELECT fld FROM tbl WHERE fld REGEXP '\b3\b';"
If you are on Windows, I guess a similar .dll file should be available somewhere.
SQLite3 supports the REGEXP operator:
WHERE x REGEXP <regex>
http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html#regexp
A hacky way to solve it without regex is where ',' || x || ',' like '%,3,%'
SQLite does not contain regular expression functionality by default.
It defines a REGEXP operator, but this will fail with an error message unless you or your framework define a user function called regexp(). How you do this will depend on your platform.
If you have a regexp() function defined, you can match an arbitrary integer from a comma-separated list like so:
... WHERE your_column REGEXP "\b" || your_integer || "\b";
But really, it looks like you would find things a whole lot easier if you normalised your database structure by replacing those groups within a single column with a separate row for each number in the comma-separated list. Then you could not only use the = operator instead of a regular expression, but also use more powerful relational tools like joins that SQL provides for you.
A SQLite UDF in PHP/PDO for the REGEXP keyword that mimics the behavior in MySQL:
$pdo->sqliteCreateFunction('regexp',
function ($pattern, $data, $delimiter = '~', $modifiers = 'isuS')
{
if (isset($pattern, $data) === true)
{
return (preg_match(sprintf('%1$s%2$s%1$s%3$s', $delimiter, $pattern, $modifiers), $data) > 0);
}
return null;
}
);
The u modifier is not implemented in MySQL, but I find it useful to have it by default. Examples:
SELECT * FROM "table" WHERE "name" REGEXP 'sql(ite)*';
SELECT * FROM "table" WHERE regexp('sql(ite)*', "name", '#', 's');
If either $data or $pattern is NULL, the result is NULL - just like in MySQL.
My solution in Python with sqlite3:
import sqlite3
import re
def match(expr, item):
return re.match(expr, item) is not None
conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
conn.create_function("MATCHES", 2, match)
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT MATCHES('^b', 'busy');")
print cursor.fetchone()[0]
cursor.close()
conn.close()
If regex matches, the output would be 1, otherwise 0.
With python, assuming con is the connection to SQLite, you can define the required UDF by writing:
con.create_function('regexp', 2, lambda x, y: 1 if re.search(x,y) else 0)
Here is a more complete example:
import re
import sqlite3
with sqlite3.connect(":memory:") as con:
con.create_function('regexp', 2, lambda x, y: 1 if re.search(x,y) else 0)
cursor = con.cursor()
# ...
cursor.execute("SELECT * from person WHERE surname REGEXP '^A' ")
I don't it is good to answer a question which was posted almost an year ago. But I am writing this for those who think that Sqlite itself provide the function REGEXP.
One basic requirement to invoke the function REGEXP in sqlite is
"You should create your own function in the application and then provide the callback link to the sqlite driver".
For that you have to use sqlite_create_function (C interface). You can find the detail from here and here
An exhaustive or'ed where clause can do it without string concatenation:
WHERE ( x == '3' OR
x LIKE '%,3' OR
x LIKE '3,%' OR
x LIKE '%,3,%');
Includes the four cases exact match, end of list, beginning of list, and mid list.
This is more verbose, doesn't require the regex extension.
UPDATE TableName
SET YourField = ''
WHERE YourField REGEXP 'YOUR REGEX'
And :
SELECT * from TableName
WHERE YourField REGEXP 'YOUR REGEX'
SQLite version 3.36.0 released 2021-06-18 now has the REGEXP command builtin.
For CLI build only.
Consider using this
WHERE x REGEXP '(^|,)(3)(,|$)'
This will match exactly 3 when x is in:
3
3,12,13
12,13,3
12,3,13
Other examples:
WHERE x REGEXP '(^|,)(3|13)(,|$)'
This will match on 3 or 13
You may consider also
WHERE x REGEXP '(^|\D{1})3(\D{1}|$)'
This will allow find number 3 in any string at any position
You could use a regular expression with REGEXP, but that is a silly way to do an exact match.
You should just say WHERE x = '3'.
If you are using php you can add any function to your sql statement by using: SQLite3::createFunction.
In PDO you can use PDO::sqliteCreateFunction and implement the preg_match function within your statement:
See how its done by Havalite (RegExp in SqLite using Php)
In case if someone looking non-regex condition for Android Sqlite, like this string [1,2,3,4,5] then don't forget to add bracket([]) same for other special characters like parenthesis({}) in #phyatt condition
WHERE ( x == '[3]' OR
x LIKE '%,3]' OR
x LIKE '[3,%' OR
x LIKE '%,3,%');
You can use the sqlean-regexp extension, which provides regexp search and replace functions.
Based on the PCRE2 engine, this extension supports all major regular expression features. It also supports Unicode. The extension is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Some usage examples:
-- select messages containing number 3
select * from messages
where msg_text regexp '\b3\b';
-- count messages containing digits
select count(*) from messages
where msg_text regexp '\d+';
-- 42
select regexp_like('Meet me at 10:30', '\d+:\d+');
-- 1
select regexp_substr('Meet me at 10:30', '\d+:\d+');
-- 10:30
select regexp_replace('password = "123456"', '"[^"]+"', '***');
-- password = ***
In Julia, the model to follow can be illustrated as follows:
using SQLite
using DataFrames
db = SQLite.DB("<name>.db")
register(db, SQLite.regexp, nargs=2, name="regexp")
SQLite.Query(db, "SELECT * FROM test WHERE name REGEXP '^h';") |> DataFrame
for rails
db = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.raw_connection
db.create_function('regexp', 2) do |func, pattern, expression|
func.result = expression.to_s.match(Regexp.new(pattern.to_s, Regexp::IGNORECASE)) ? 1 : 0
end
I'd like to use a regular expression in sqlite, but I don't know how.
My table has got a column with strings like this: "3,12,13,14,19,28,32"
Now if I type "where x LIKE '3'" I also get the rows which contain values like 13 or 32,
but I'd like to get only the rows which have exactly the value 3 in that string.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
As others pointed out already, REGEXP calls a user defined function which must first be defined and loaded into the the database. Maybe some sqlite distributions or GUI tools include it by default, but my Ubuntu install did not. The solution was
sudo apt-get install sqlite3-pcre
which implements Perl regular expressions in a loadable module in /usr/lib/sqlite3/pcre.so
To be able to use it, you have to load it each time you open the database:
.load /usr/lib/sqlite3/pcre.so
Or you could put that line into your ~/.sqliterc.
Now you can query like this:
SELECT fld FROM tbl WHERE fld REGEXP '\b3\b';
If you want to query directly from the command-line, you can use the -cmd switch to load the library before your SQL:
sqlite3 "$filename" -cmd ".load /usr/lib/sqlite3/pcre.so" "SELECT fld FROM tbl WHERE fld REGEXP '\b3\b';"
If you are on Windows, I guess a similar .dll file should be available somewhere.
SQLite3 supports the REGEXP operator:
WHERE x REGEXP <regex>
http://www.sqlite.org/lang_expr.html#regexp
A hacky way to solve it without regex is where ',' || x || ',' like '%,3,%'
SQLite does not contain regular expression functionality by default.
It defines a REGEXP operator, but this will fail with an error message unless you or your framework define a user function called regexp(). How you do this will depend on your platform.
If you have a regexp() function defined, you can match an arbitrary integer from a comma-separated list like so:
... WHERE your_column REGEXP "\b" || your_integer || "\b";
But really, it looks like you would find things a whole lot easier if you normalised your database structure by replacing those groups within a single column with a separate row for each number in the comma-separated list. Then you could not only use the = operator instead of a regular expression, but also use more powerful relational tools like joins that SQL provides for you.
A SQLite UDF in PHP/PDO for the REGEXP keyword that mimics the behavior in MySQL:
$pdo->sqliteCreateFunction('regexp',
function ($pattern, $data, $delimiter = '~', $modifiers = 'isuS')
{
if (isset($pattern, $data) === true)
{
return (preg_match(sprintf('%1$s%2$s%1$s%3$s', $delimiter, $pattern, $modifiers), $data) > 0);
}
return null;
}
);
The u modifier is not implemented in MySQL, but I find it useful to have it by default. Examples:
SELECT * FROM "table" WHERE "name" REGEXP 'sql(ite)*';
SELECT * FROM "table" WHERE regexp('sql(ite)*', "name", '#', 's');
If either $data or $pattern is NULL, the result is NULL - just like in MySQL.
My solution in Python with sqlite3:
import sqlite3
import re
def match(expr, item):
return re.match(expr, item) is not None
conn = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
conn.create_function("MATCHES", 2, match)
cursor = conn.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT MATCHES('^b', 'busy');")
print cursor.fetchone()[0]
cursor.close()
conn.close()
If regex matches, the output would be 1, otherwise 0.
With python, assuming con is the connection to SQLite, you can define the required UDF by writing:
con.create_function('regexp', 2, lambda x, y: 1 if re.search(x,y) else 0)
Here is a more complete example:
import re
import sqlite3
with sqlite3.connect(":memory:") as con:
con.create_function('regexp', 2, lambda x, y: 1 if re.search(x,y) else 0)
cursor = con.cursor()
# ...
cursor.execute("SELECT * from person WHERE surname REGEXP '^A' ")
I don't it is good to answer a question which was posted almost an year ago. But I am writing this for those who think that Sqlite itself provide the function REGEXP.
One basic requirement to invoke the function REGEXP in sqlite is
"You should create your own function in the application and then provide the callback link to the sqlite driver".
For that you have to use sqlite_create_function (C interface). You can find the detail from here and here
An exhaustive or'ed where clause can do it without string concatenation:
WHERE ( x == '3' OR
x LIKE '%,3' OR
x LIKE '3,%' OR
x LIKE '%,3,%');
Includes the four cases exact match, end of list, beginning of list, and mid list.
This is more verbose, doesn't require the regex extension.
UPDATE TableName
SET YourField = ''
WHERE YourField REGEXP 'YOUR REGEX'
And :
SELECT * from TableName
WHERE YourField REGEXP 'YOUR REGEX'
SQLite version 3.36.0 released 2021-06-18 now has the REGEXP command builtin.
For CLI build only.
Consider using this
WHERE x REGEXP '(^|,)(3)(,|$)'
This will match exactly 3 when x is in:
3
3,12,13
12,13,3
12,3,13
Other examples:
WHERE x REGEXP '(^|,)(3|13)(,|$)'
This will match on 3 or 13
You may consider also
WHERE x REGEXP '(^|\D{1})3(\D{1}|$)'
This will allow find number 3 in any string at any position
You could use a regular expression with REGEXP, but that is a silly way to do an exact match.
You should just say WHERE x = '3'.
If you are using php you can add any function to your sql statement by using: SQLite3::createFunction.
In PDO you can use PDO::sqliteCreateFunction and implement the preg_match function within your statement:
See how its done by Havalite (RegExp in SqLite using Php)
In case if someone looking non-regex condition for Android Sqlite, like this string [1,2,3,4,5] then don't forget to add bracket([]) same for other special characters like parenthesis({}) in #phyatt condition
WHERE ( x == '[3]' OR
x LIKE '%,3]' OR
x LIKE '[3,%' OR
x LIKE '%,3,%');
You can use the sqlean-regexp extension, which provides regexp search and replace functions.
Based on the PCRE2 engine, this extension supports all major regular expression features. It also supports Unicode. The extension is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Some usage examples:
-- select messages containing number 3
select * from messages
where msg_text regexp '\b3\b';
-- count messages containing digits
select count(*) from messages
where msg_text regexp '\d+';
-- 42
select regexp_like('Meet me at 10:30', '\d+:\d+');
-- 1
select regexp_substr('Meet me at 10:30', '\d+:\d+');
-- 10:30
select regexp_replace('password = "123456"', '"[^"]+"', '***');
-- password = ***
In Julia, the model to follow can be illustrated as follows:
using SQLite
using DataFrames
db = SQLite.DB("<name>.db")
register(db, SQLite.regexp, nargs=2, name="regexp")
SQLite.Query(db, "SELECT * FROM test WHERE name REGEXP '^h';") |> DataFrame
for rails
db = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.raw_connection
db.create_function('regexp', 2) do |func, pattern, expression|
func.result = expression.to_s.match(Regexp.new(pattern.to_s, Regexp::IGNORECASE)) ? 1 : 0
end