Use the SUBSTR and INSTR at the same time. : CHAR VARCHAR2 Functions « PL SQL Data Types « Oracle PL/SQL Tutorial






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To print out the last word in the string:

SQL> declare
  2      v1_tx VARCHAR2(20):='Hello to everybody';
  3      v2_tx VARCHAR2(20);
  4  begin
  5      v2_tx:= substr (v1_tx, instr (v1_tx,' ',-1)+1);
  6      DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line(v2_tx);
  7  end;
  8  /
everybody

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL>








21.5.CHAR VARCHAR2 Functions
21.5.1.Useful character built-in functions
21.5.2.Compare char type value with blank space
21.5.3.Compare char type value with 'trim'
21.5.4.The most useful character specifications are
21.5.5.ASCII
21.5.6.SUBSTR
21.5.7.INSTR
21.5.8.Use the SUBSTR and INSTR at the same time.
21.5.9.REPLACE
21.5.10.TRANSLATE
21.5.11.PAD, RPAD, LPAD
21.5.12.TRIM
21.5.13.Extending your options with regular expressions
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