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the position of last occurrence

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KatherineF

KatherineF

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Mar 3, 2003
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Is there a way to find the position of last character occurrence in the string having count of occurrences
(using no loop)
 
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you mean somefunction('x','abxdefxhijxlmno') yielding 11 (position) and 3 (count)?

not in ansi sql, i don't think

what database are you using?


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