Finding the last occurrance of a character in a string

saraswathis · New User Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 8

I wish to find the last occurence of space(' ') in a string. Does anyone know? Also is there any function to find the number of occurences of a char in a string?

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 7:41 pm

Hello,

When posting a new question, please start a new topic.

I've split this question from the previous topic.

Marso · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:06 pm

Why is this in the DB2 forum?
Do you need to answer this question from within a SELECT, like:
SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE "last occurence of space" > 5 ?

Or do you want to do this in COBOL ?

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:42 pm

Hello,

From what i saw, it is for a DB2 SELECT rather than COBOL.

I believe the desired result is twofold:
1. how many spaces are in the string
2. the postition of the last space

saraswathis · New User Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 8

Exactly !!!. I need the number of occurences of the spaces in a string. And i want to find out the last occurence of the space. This needs to be run on MainFrame - DB2.

Thnks in adv

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 7:10 pm

Hello,

Will this "select" be done inside a cobol program?

If so, my recommendation is that you select the needed rows(s) from DB2 and then parse them in the cobol code for the space count/last position.

Gives you the advantage of simply modifying the code if the requirement ever grows/changes as well as it could be running yet today. Given that no one has posted a select yet (since the 8th), and this is the DB2 forum, it may be a bit before a suggestion is posted. . .