Split a VARCHAR in DB2 to retrieve a value inside

Question

I have a VARCHAR column that contains 5 informations (2 CHAR(3) and 3 TIMESTAMP) separated with \'$\'.

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Answer 1

If your DB2's version can do it, you can use then LOCATE_IN_STRING function for to found position of your separator. The LOCATE_IN_STRING function returns the starting position of a string and enable you to choice the Nth instance. You can found documentation of this function here

For your example, you can use this code :

select 
substring(col, LOCATE_IN_STRING(col, '$', 1, 3), LOCATE_IN_STRING(col, '$', 1, 4) - LOCATE_IN_STRING(col, '$', 1, 3))                       
from MYTABLE