[firebird-support] Looking for a stored procedure or function that can find the second occurance of value passed in

2013-03-14 Thread SoftTech
Greetings All, I would like to pass in a string and a substr and the position of where the x occurrence is. Example: String: Then the big red fox jumped over the flowing stream." SubStr: the occurrence: 2 Would return 34 which is the starting position of the second "the" found in the string pa

Re: [firebird-support] Looking for a stored procedure or function that can find the second occurance of value passed in

2013-03-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:00:17 -0500, "SoftTech" wrote: > Greetings All, > > I would like to pass in a string and a substr and the position of where > the > x occurrence is. > > Example: > String: Then the big red fox jumped over the flowing stream." > SubStr: the > occurrence: 2 > > Would retur

Re: {Disarmed} Re: [firebird-support] Looking for a stored procedure or function that can find the second occurance of value passed in

2013-03-14 Thread SoftTech
function that can find the second occurance of value passed in On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:00:17 -0500, "SoftTech" wrote: > Greetings All, > > I would like to pass in a string and a substr and the position of where > the > x occurrence is. > >

Re: {Disarmed} Re: [firebird-support] Looking for a stored procedure or function that can find the second occurance of value passed in

2013-03-14 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:29:56 -0500, "SoftTech" wrote: > Thanks Mark, > > Guess I should have stated that I need this for Firebird 1.5 > I'd say: starting migrating ;) You could look at FreeAdhocUDF. It has several functions that are similar to POSITION (for example F_SUBSTR ), see http://freea