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POSITION function
Returns the location of the specified substring within a string.
See CHARINDEX function and STRPOS function for similar functions.
Syntax
POSITION(substring IN string )
Arguments
- substring
-
The substring to search for within the string.
- string
-
The string or column to be searched.
Return type
The POSITION function returns an INTEGER corresponding to the position of the
substring (one-based, not zero-based). The position is based on the number of
characters, not bytes, so that multi-byte characters are counted as single
characters. POSITION returns 0 if the substring is not found within the string.
Examples
To return the position of the string fish within
the word dog, use the following example.
SELECT POSITION('fish' IN 'dog');+-----------+ | position | +-----------+ | 0 | +-----------+
To return the position of the string fish within
the word dogfish, use the following example.
SELECT POSITION('fish' IN 'dogfish');+-----------+ | position | +-----------+ | 4 | +-----------+
The following example uses the SALES table from the TICKIT sample database. For more information, see Sample database.
To return the number of distinct sales transactions with a commission over 999.00 from the SALES table, use the following example. This command counts commissions greater than 999.00 by checking if the decimal is more than 4 places from the beginning of the commission value.
SELECT DISTINCT POSITION('.' IN commission), COUNT (POSITION('.' IN commission)) FROM sales WHERE POSITION('.' IN commission) > 4 GROUP BY POSITION('.' IN commission) ORDER BY 1,2;+-----------+-------+ | position | count | +-----------+-------+ | 5 | 629 | +-----------+-------+