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simonmlewis
PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:23 am 
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I need to find all fields where the first two characters are "ie", and replace those characters with "uk".

I thought I had sorted the part of replacing with this, but it makes it either go uke, or iee, depending on how I Adjust the code:

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UPDATE products SET romancode = CONCAT( REPLACE( LEFT( romancode, 2 ) , 'uk', 'ie' ) , SUBSTRING( romancode, 2, CHAR_LENGTH( romancode ) ) )

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Sounds like it's replacing fine but using the second character onwards instead of the third character.

Huh. "Second character". There's a 2 in your SQL. I wonder if...
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For all forms of SUBSTRING(), the position of the first character in the string from which the substring is to be extracted is reckoned as 1.

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And with that out of the way, you made the query quite a bit more complicated than it needed to be. Surely "find all the values that start with 'uk' and make them start with 'ie'" is a simpler way of expressing the problem?
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UPDATE products SET romancode = CONCAT( 'ie', SUBSTRING ( romancode, 2 ) ) WHERE romancode LIKE 'uk%'
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simonmlewis
PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:11 am 
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UPDATE products SET romancode = CONCAT( 'ie', SUBSTRING ( romancode, 2 ) ) WHERE romancode LIKE 'uk%'

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CONCAT( 'ie', SUBSTRING ( romancode, 2 ) )

Part doing? IS that using SUBSTRING to concatentate it on, but replacing the first 2 chars?

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 6:12 am 
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It's thrown an error:

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#1630 - FUNCTION site_ie.SUBSTRING does not exist. Check the 'Function Name Parsing and Resolution' section in the Reference Manual

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:53 am 
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simonmlewis wrote:
It's thrown an error:

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#1630 - FUNCTION site_ie.SUBSTRING does not exist. Check the 'Function Name Parsing and Resolution' section in the Reference Manual

Please just see the MySQL manual for the correct name of the function. Certainly the name requinix gave is clear enough to figure it out.

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requinix
PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:48 pm 
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"SUBSTRING" has existed in MySQL forever. However what I've just learned is that it's possible for gratuitous whitespace to be a bad thing.

Function Name Parsing and Resolution
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To use the name as a function call in an expression, there must be no whitespace between the name and the following “(” parenthesis character.

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UPDATE products SET romancode = CONCAT( 'uk', SUBSTRING( romancode, 2 ) ) WHERE romancode LIKE 'ie%'
/*                                                     ^                                          */

(I hadn't actually intended for the space to be there, incidentally)
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Christopher
PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 3:56 pm 
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I wonder if that is an SQL thing? It certainly would make parsing statements easier.

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simonmlewis
PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 2:59 am 
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That also puts an "e" in it. Changes one from ieTest123 to ukeTest123.

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No it doesn't. It's leaving the e from ie because SUBSTRING isn't 0-indexed, so you need to start at 3 instead of 2.

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simonmlewis
PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:34 am 
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Going on from this query, how do I query the database by asking it to look for a code, and taking out the first two characters within the query.

We have a UK site with a code such as TESTXL23.
But on the Ireland site this might be ieTESTXL23 or ukTEXTSL23.
So I want it to, on the fly, query the Ireland table, but ignoring the first two characters.

Is that possible?

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... WHERE somefield LIKE '%TESTXL23'

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Celauran wrote:
No it doesn't. It's leaving the e from ie because SUBSTRING isn't 0-indexed, so you need to start at 3 instead of 2.

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simonmlewis
PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 4:30 am 
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Ok bit of a problem.
Some products on the IE site, has words in front of the words found on UK that are not UK.
For example:
ukM47D1 (found on IE)
ukRECONM47D1 (also found on IE)

So it's producing two, but I only wanted the first one as on the UK site is is M47D1.

So can that query be altered so the first TWO ONLY characters are removed from the query, rather that doing a WildCard?

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Sure. Just wrap the bit you want to match in a substring.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 2:36 pm 
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Pardon.....??

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