SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY string_length(column);
Is there a MySQL function to do this (of course instead of string_length)?
You are looking for CHAR_LENGTH() to get the number of characters in a string.
For multi-byte charsets LENGTH() will give you the number of bytes the string occupies, while CHAR_LENGTH() will return the number of characters.
SELECT * FROM table
ORDER BY LENGTH(column);
Documentation on the LENGTH() function, as well as all the other string functions, is available here.
Having a look at MySQL documentation for the string functions, we can also use CHAR_LENGTH() and CHARACTER_LENGTH() as well.
In my case I get data using mobile number length greater than 10 digits using the below query
SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE CHAR_LENGTH(mobile) > 10;
The function that I use to find the length of the string is length, used as follows:
SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY length(column);
I used this sentences to filter
SELECT table.field1, table.field2 FROM table WHERE length(field) > 10;
you can change 10 for other number that you want to filter.
select * from *tablename* where 1 having length(*fieldname*)=*fieldlength*
Example if you want to select from customer the entry's with a name shorter then 2 chars.
select * from customer where 1 **having length(name)<2**
Related
create table numbers (number varchar(10));
insert into numbers (number) values
('1234123452'),
('5532003644'),
('1122330505'),
('1103220311'),
('1103000011'),
('1103020012');
Query:-
SELECT * FROM numbers
WHERE SUBSTRING(Number,1,4) = SUBSTRING(Number,5,8)
Result:-
There are no results to be displayed.
Expected Result:
1234123452
The third argument to SUBSTRING() is the length, not the ending position. So it should be:
SELECT * FROM numbers
WHERE SUBSTRING(Number,1,4) = SUBSTRING(Number,5,4)
You could take advantage of REGEXP_LIKE here, assuming you are using MySQL 8+:
SELECT *
FROM numbers
WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(Number, '^(.{4})\\1';
The pattern ^(.{4})\\1 matches and captures the first four characters, then asserts that these same characters appear immediately afterward.
I am trying to find all values that do not start with a number
I have tried this query, but not sure if the REGEXP is correct. This seem to be returning any value the does not contains a number
SELECT * FROM table where address NOT REGEXP '[0-9]'
I think this fixed the issue
SELECT * FROM table where address NOT REGEXP '^[0-9]'
In MySQL if you try to convert a string to a number then it will start from the beginning taking the digits and convert as much as possible.
If a string does not start with a number then the result is 0.
select * from your_table
where address * 1 = 0
SQLFiddle demo
You can use explicit conversion with cast(str_column as unsigned) or implicit conversion by using a mathematical operator like * 1
I have a table like:
id name
--------
1 clark_009
2 clark_012
3 johny_002
4 johny_010
I need to get results in this order:
johny_002
clark_009
johny_010
clark_012
Do not ask me what I already tried, I have no idea how to do this.
This will do it, very simply selecting the right-most 3 characters and ordering by that value ascending.
SELECT *
FROM table_name
ORDER BY RIGHT(name, 3) ASC;
It should be added that as your data grows, this will become an inefficient solution. Eventually, you'll probably want to store the numeric appendix in a separate, indexed integer column, so that sorting will be optimally efficient.
you should try this.
SELECT * FROM Table order by SUBSTRING(name, -3);
good luck!
You may apply substring_index function to parse these values -
select * from table order by substring_index(name, '_', -1)
You can use MySQL SUBSTRING() function to sort by substring
Syntax : SUBSTRING(string,position,length)
Example : Sort by last 3 characters of a String
SELECT * FROM TableName ORDER BY SUBSTRING(FieldName, -3);
#OR
SELECT * FROM TableName ORDER BY SUBSTRING(FieldName, -3,3);
Example : Sort by first 3 characters of a String
SELECT * FROM TableName ORDER BY SUBSTRING(FieldName, 1,3);
Note : Positive Position/Index start from Left to Right and Negative Position/Index start from Right to Left of the String.
Here is the details about SUBSTRING() function.
If you want to order by the last three characters (from left to right) with variable name lengths, I propose this:
SELECT *
FROM TABLE
ORDER BY SUBSTRING (name, LEN(name)-2, 3)
The index starts at lenght of name -2 which is the third last character.
I'm a little late but just encountered the same problem and this helped me.
I need to order by a field that contains a set of numbers. Lets say a table named TEST contains ID, NAME, QUADS with QUADS as follows.
95,273,212,405
717,450,771,504
391,176,646,272
This are the results I am getting with a query such as
SELECT * FROM TEST ORDER BY QUADS
391,176,646,272
717,450,771,504
95,273,212,405
These are the results I am looking to get
95,273,212,405
391,176,646,272
717,450,771,504
I am only interested in the first number in the set for "order". Figure it might be possible with a substring to the comma but not sure how to do that in MySQL.
Try this:
select * from test
order by cast(substring_index(quads,',',1) as unsigned)
What you want is the substring_index function.
... order by substring_index(x_field,',',1)
This extracts the text in x_field up to the first occurrence of the comma delimiter
Try with this:
select QUADS, 0+QUADS as S from TEST order by S
0+QUADS will convert your string to int and will use for it just the first digits sequence before "," which is actually what you want.
Is there any function like "strlen" in mysql?
Mysql does have a length function to return the length of a string.
so you could do something like.
select * from some_table where length(some_string) > 0;
You can do it with using LENGTH keyword
SELECT * FROM table WHERE LENGTH (name) > 150;
How to select one text column, which string length >0 ?
You could compare to the empty string:
SELECT yourcolumn
FROM yourtable
WHERE yourcolumn <> ''
The following query would do the job for you.
select length(your_text_column) from sample_table where length(some_column) > 0
For anyone who comes across this answer in Google, keep this in mind:
Actually, CHAR_LENGTH() should be a better choice. For multi-byte charsets LENGTH() will give you the number of bytes the string occupies, while CHAR_LENGTH() will return the number of characters
MySQL - How to select data by string length