I am concatenating but it is showing error
UPPER(SUBSTRING( [a],1,1)) + FINDSTRING( [a]," ",1)
The [a] value looks like:
snoffy ab
FINDSTRING() Function will return a DT_I4 value which cannot be concateneted with a string, just cast it:
UPPER(SUBSTRING([a],1,1)) + (DT_WSTR,10)FINDSTRING([a]," ",1)
You have to pass the 1st list from your array value.
Array of string into a variable in SSIS
Related
How do we concatenate fields of a dynamic work area? The idea is in the below code:
LOOP AT lt_final INTO DATA(ls_final).
CONCATENATE ls_final-field1
ls_final-field2
ls_final-field3
ls_final-field4
ls_final-field5
INTO ls_attachment SEPARATED BY lc_tab. "lc_tab is horizontal tab
APPEND ls_attachment TO lt_attachment.
CLEAR: ls_attachment.
ENDLOOP.
(This code will be used for sending email attachment.) Now, my problem is, the internal table in the above code is a dynamic internal table, therefore I am not sure how many fields will be there and the field names as well.
How do I concatenate the fields? Any idea, please help..
LOOP AT <dynamic_table> INTO DATA(ls_final).
CONCATENATE ls_final-(?)
ls_final-(?)
ls_final-(?)
ls_final-(?)
ls_final-(?)
"or more fields insert here depending on dynamic table
INTO ls_attachment SEPARATED BY lc_tab. "lc_tab is horizontal tab
APPEND ls_attachment TO lt_attachment.
CLEAR: ls_attachment.
ENDLOOP.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <lv_field> TYPE ANY.
LOOP AT lt_final
ASSIGNING FIELD-SYMBOL(<ls_final>).
DO.
ASSIGN COMPONENT sy-index
OF STRUCTURE <ls_final>
TO <lv_field>.
IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
IF sy-index EQ 1.
ls_attachment = <lv_field>.
ELSE.
ls_attachment = ls_attachment && lc_tab && <lv_field>.
ENDIF.
ELSE.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
ENDDO.
ENDLOOP.
I hope it is self explaining, but:
You can use the system variable (sy-index), it is incremented automatically by SAP.
In the first step, just copy the value, there is nothing to concatenate yet (otherwise there will be an unnecessary lc_tab at the beginning of the string).
Just read your structure by index.
data :
lv_attachment type string.
lv_index type i value 1.
field-symbols:
<lv_value> type any.
while 1 = 1.
assign component lv_index of structure ls_final to <lv_value>.
if sy-subrc <> 0.
exit.
endif.
concatenate lv_attachment <lv_value> into lv_attachment separated by lc_tab.
lv_index = lv_index + 1.
endwhile.
Hope it helps.
You can use CL_ABAP_CONTAINER_UTILITIES class for that task, method FILL_CONTAINER_C.
Here is the sample of populating dynamic table and concatenating its fields into container field:
PARAMETERS: p_tab TYPE string.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <fs_tab> TYPE STANDARD TABLE.
DATA tab TYPE REF TO data.
CREATE DATA tab TYPE TABLE OF (p_tab).
ASSIGN tab->* TO <fs_tab>.
SELECT * UP TO 100 ROWS
INTO TABLE <fs_tab>
FROM (p_tab).
LOOP AT <fs_tab> ASSIGNING FIELD-SYMBOL(<fs_line>).
CALL METHOD CL_ABAP_CONTAINER_UTILITIES=>FILL_CONTAINER_C
EXPORTING
IM_VALUE = <fs_line>
IMPORTING
EX_CONTAINER = DATA(container)
EXCEPTIONS
ILLEGAL_PARAMETER_TYPE = 1
others = 2.
CONDENSE container.
" do smth
ENDLOOP.
I have [strStockNumber] + [strCustomerNumber] + [intAccountNumber] as "REFNUMBER" in a select where the column strStockNumber = 148218X and the other two columns are null. The returned REFNUMBER is null, where I'm expecting 148218XDoes + not concatenate nulls?
null values concatenate to a null value.
If you want to still concatenate the values you will need to wrap them in a isnull(<Column>,'') like so:
isnull(strStockNumber,'')
+ isnull(strCustomerNumber,'')
+ isnull(intAccountNumber,'') as "REFNUMBER"
Does + not concatenate nulls?
No..Null+ any thing equals nulls..You will have to use ISNULL to get desired results
Use CONCAT to join strings with possible NULL values:
CONCAT ([strStockNumber], [strCustomerNumber], [intAccountNumber]) AS [REFNUMBER]
I have some sql function that returns character varying type. The output is something like this:
'TTFFFFNN'. I need to get this characters by index. How to convert character varying to array?
Use string_to_array() with NULL as delimiter (pg 9.1+):
SELECT string_to_array('TTFFFFNN'::text, NULL) AS arr;
Per documentation:
In string_to_array, if the delimiter parameter is NULL, each character
in the input string will become a separate element in the resulting array.
In older versions (pg 9.0-), the call with NULL returned NULL. (Fiddle.)
To get the 2nd position (example):
SELECT (string_to_array('TTFFFFNN'::text, NULL))[2] AS item2;
Alternatives
For single characters I would use substring() directly, like #a_horse commented:
SELECT substring('TTFFFFNN'::text, 2, 1) AS item2;
SQL Fiddle showing both.
For strings with actual delimiters, I suggest split_part():
Split comma separated column data into additional columns
Only use regexp_split_to_array() if you must. Regular expression processing is more expensive.
In addition to the solutions outlined by Erwin and a horse, you can use regexp_split_to_array() with an empty regexp instead:
select regexp_split_to_array('TTFFFFNN'::text, '');
With an index, that becomes:
select (regexp_split_to_array('TTFFFFNN'::text, ''))[2];
i have to pass two parameters (month var-char(2),year var char(4)),but these two parameters pointing towards one coloumn 'Myear'(values will be like this '03/14') now after passing parameters then i should compare with the coloumn 'Myear' then have to get data.kindly please any one help me out..thanks in advance
If Myear is varchar, then try this:
SELECT Myear
FROM TableName
WHERE SUBSTRING(Myear,1,2)=#month
AND SUBSTRING(Myear,4,2)=SUBSTRING(#year,3,2)
Suppose #Myear=03/14 and given parameters are #month=05 and #year=2013, then it will check
if 03=05 AND 14=13.
The syntax of SUBSTRING():
SUBSTRING ( expression ,start , length )
I need an SSIS expression to get the left part of a string before the separator, and then put the new string in a new column. I checked in derived column, it seems no such expressions. Substring could only return string part with fixed length.
For example, with separator string - :
Art-Reading Should return Art
Art-Writing Should return Art
Science-chemistry Should return Science
P.S.
I knew this could be done in MySQL with SUBSTRING_INDEX(), but I'm looking for an equivalent in SSIS, or at least in SQL Server
Better late than never, but I wanted to do this too and found this.
TOKEN(character_expression, delimiter_string, occurrence)
TOKEN("a little white dog"," ",2)
returns little the source is below
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh213216.aspx
of course you can:
just configure your derived columns like this:
Here is the expression to make your life easier:
SUBSTRING(name,1,FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) - 1)
FYI, the second "1" means to get the first occurrence of the string "-"
EDIT:
expression to deal with string without "-"
FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) != 0 ? (SUBSTRING(name,1,FINDSTRING(name,"-",1) - 1)) : name
You can specify the length to copy in the SUBSTRING function and check for the location of the dash using CHARINDEX
SELECT SUBSTRING(#sString, 1, CHARINDEX('-',#sString) - 1)
For the SSIS expression it is pretty much the same code:
SUBSTRING(#[User::String], 1, FINDSTRING(#[User::String], "-", 1)-1)
if SUBSTRING length param returns -1 then it results in error,
"The length -1 is not valid for function "SUBSTRING". The length parameter cannot be negative. Change the length parameter to zero or a positive value."