reverse strpos?

am Mon, dem 12.11.2007, um 10:54:53 -0500 mailte Gauthier, Dave folgendes:

Is there a function that?ll return the position of the last occurance of a char
in a string?

For Example, in the string ?abc/def/ghi? I want the position of the 2^nd ?/?.

write a function to revert the string and use strpos().

create or replace function rev(varchar) returns varchar as $$
declare
_temp varchar;
_count int;
begin
_temp := '';
for _count in reverse length($1)..1 loop
_temp := _temp || substring($1 from _count for 1);
end loop;
return _temp;
end;
$$ language plpgsql immutable;

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:19:25PM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote:

am Mon, dem 12.11.2007, um 10:54:53 -0500 mailte Gauthier, Dave folgendes:

Is there a function that?ll return the position of the last
occurance of a char in a string?

For Example, in the string ?abc/def/ghi? I want the position of
the 2^nd ?/?.

write a function to revert the string and use strpos().

create or replace function rev(varchar) returns varchar as $$
declare
_temp varchar;
_count int;
begin
_temp := '';
for _count in reverse length($1)..1 loop
_temp := _temp || substring($1 from _count for 1);
end loop;
return _temp;
end;
$$ language plpgsql immutable;

Andreas

PL/Perl might be easier:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION rev(TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT
IMMUTABLE
LANGUAGE plperl
AS $$
return reverse($_[0]);
$$;

You could also write wrappers around perl functions if you're taking
that route.

If you want to guarantee the thing runs on any modern Postgres
instance--one where you don't control the environment at all--you
could do:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION rev(TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT
IMMUTABLE
LANGUAGE SQL
AS $$
SELECT array_to_string(
ARRAY(
SELECT substr($1,i,1)
FROM generate_series(length($1),1,-1) AS i
),
''
);
$$;

Cheers,
David.
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Great suggestions (I have just GOT to get the IS people around here to
install plperl).

Leveraging what Andreas sent, I created my own strrpos....

create or replace function strrpos(varchar,varchar) returns int as $$
declare
_count int;
begin

for _count in reverse length($1)..1 loop

if(substring($1 from _count for 1) = $2) then
return _count;
end if;

end loop;
return 0;

end;
$$ language plpgsql immutable;

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of David Fetter
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:48 AM
To: A. Kretschmer
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] reverse strpos?

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:19:25PM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote:

am Mon, dem 12.11.2007, um 10:54:53 -0500 mailte Gauthier, Dave

folgendes:

Is there a function that?ll return the position of the last
occurance of a char in a string?

For Example, in the string ?abc/def/ghi? I want the position of
the 2^nd ?/?.

write a function to revert the string and use strpos().

create or replace function rev(varchar) returns varchar as $$
declare
_temp varchar;
_count int;
begin
_temp := '';
for _count in reverse length($1)..1 loop
_temp := _temp || substring($1 from _count for 1);
end loop;
return _temp;
end;
$$ language plpgsql immutable;

Andreas

PL/Perl might be easier:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION rev(TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT
IMMUTABLE
LANGUAGE plperl
AS $$
return reverse($_[0]);
$$;

You could also write wrappers around perl functions if you're taking
that route.

If you want to guarantee the thing runs on any modern Postgres
instance--one where you don't control the environment at all--you
could do:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION rev(TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT
IMMUTABLE
LANGUAGE SQL
AS $$
SELECT array_to_string(
ARRAY(
SELECT substr($1,i,1)
FROM generate_series(length($1),1,-1) AS i
),
''
);
$$;

Cheers,
David.
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am Mon, dem 12.11.2007, um 8:48:29 -0800 mailte David Fetter folgendes:

Is there a function that?ll return the position of the last
occurance of a char in a string?

write a function to revert the string and use strpos().

create or replace function rev(varchar) returns varchar as $$
declare
...
$$ language plpgsql immutable;

Andreas

PL/Perl might be easier:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION rev(TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT
IMMUTABLE
LANGUAGE plperl
AS $$
return reverse($_[0]);
$$;

heh, the PERL-Guru ;-)

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION rev(TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT
IMMUTABLE
LANGUAGE SQL
AS $$
SELECT array_to_string(
ARRAY(
SELECT substr($1,i,1)
FROM generate_series(length($1),1,-1) AS i
),
''
);
$$;

Nice.

The generate_series()-function are really great.

Andreas
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On 12/11/2007, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote:

Is there a function that'll return the position of the last occurance of a
char in a string?

Hello

simply install and use orafce

http://www.pgsql.cz/index.php/Oracle_functionality_%28en%29

Regards
Pavel Stehule

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:54:53AM -0500, Gauthier, Dave wrote:

Is there a function that'll return the position of the last occurance of
a char in a string?
For Example, in the string 'abc/def/ghi' I want the position of the 2nd
'/'.

# select length(substring('abc/def/ghi' from '^(.*/)'));
length
--------
8
(1 row)

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