Obivously this is the best solution SELECT LENGTH("banana") - LENGTH( REPLACE("banana","n","")); (so no need or a Stored Function) .. however you may consider to replace LENGTH with CHAR_LENGTH, This is important if you use UTF8 and if you have non-ASCII characters (what you undoubtedly have as a Brazilian person (I guess you are?)). This example with the Spanish "ñ" character illustrates: SET NAMES utf8; SELECT LENGTH("bañaña") - LENGTH( REPLACE("bañaña","ñ","")); -- returns "4" (4 *bytes* more exactly) - and this result is not what your are after! -- whereas SET NAMES utf8; SELECT CHAR_LENGTH("bañaña") - CHAR_LENGTH( REPLACE("bañaña","ñ","")); -- returns "2" (2 *characters* more exactly) - and this is what you want. -- Peter On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Federico Razzoli <federico_raz@yahoo.it>wrote:
When a PHP function does something you cannot do in SQL, you could call PHP from your queries using the Gearman UDF.
https://launchpad.net/gearman-mysql-udf
In most cases this should be faster than a stored function. I hope that in the future this will change, but who knows...
Regards, Federico
-------------------------------------------- Mer 19/3/14, Roberto Spadim <roberto@spadim.com.br> ha scritto:
Oggetto: Re: [Maria-discuss] help - i'm not finding one sql function A: "pslawek83" <pslawek83@o2.pl> Cc: "Maria Discuss" <maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net> Data: Mercoledì 19 marzo 2014, 16:18
wow! thanks kk i was trying to find a php like functionyour idea is very nice :) thank you! substr_count => (length(field)-length(replace(' ','',field)))
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2014-03-19 12:16 GMT-03:00 pslawek83 <pslawek83@o2.pl>:
Hi Roberto, You'll have to replace char => empty and get the difference in length.
SELECT (length("banana") - replace("n", "", "banana"))
There's probably no "standard" function to do that.
Dnia 19 marca 2014 15:51 Roberto Spadim <roberto@spadim.com.br> napisał(a):
hi guys, i'm not finding a function to return how many character i have, for example:
"banana"
i want a function that return 2 "n" characters, example: substr_count("banana","n") => 2
sorry it a begginners question, but i didn't found it in mysql/mariadb manual
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