How to create function returning numeric from string containing percent character

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 3:50 AM Andrus <kobruleht2@hot.ee> wrote:

val function should return numeric value from string up to first non-digit
character, considering first decimal point also:

val('1,2TEST') should return 1.2
val('1,2,3') should return 1.2
val('-1,2,3') should return -1.2

SELECT coalesce(nullif('0'||substring(Translate($1,',','.'),
'^-?[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*$'),''),'0')::numeric;
select val('1,2%')
How to force it to return 1.2 ?

It should work starting from Postgres 9.0

Removing the $ from your regexp pattern should work for the 4 provided
examples.

You cannot remove stuff from the end of a string if you require that the
end of said string match what you want to return.

David J.

I suspect it will depend on your localisation whether you need to account
for different decimal separators, but just in case:

SELECT replace(substring('-1,2%' from '^-?\d*[.,]?\d*'), ',', '.')::numeric;

On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 18:50, Andrus <kobruleht2@hot.ee> wrote:

val function should return numeric value from string up to first non-digit
character, considering first decimal point also:

val('1,2TEST') should return 1.2
val('1,2,3') should return 1.2
val('-1,2,3') should return -1.2

I tried

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.VAL(value text)
RETURNS numeric AS
$BODY$
SELECT coalesce(nullif('0'||substring(Translate($1,',','.'),
'^-?[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*$'),''),'0')::numeric;
$BODY$ language sql immutable;

but if string contains % character,

select val('1,2%')

returns 0.

How to force it to return 1.2 ?

It should work starting from Postgres 9.0

Posted also in

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63032072/how-to-create-function-returning-value-up-to-first-non-digit-decimal-charcater#63032126

Andrus.

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