I am having issue with following regex
select REGEXP_REPLACE(declinereasondesc, '(.+)(£)(\d+)', '\1\3 (GBP)') as r from DECLINEREASON t
it does not match following rows
Too expensive : By less than £100
Too expensive : By more than £200
Expected outcome
Too expensive : By less than 100 (GBP)
Too expensive : By more than 200 (GBP)
EDIT:
screenshot for non-believers
Figured it out myself problem is £
as I am sure everyone suspected
Solution contains two steps first is to get symbol code, even if you copy paste £
into select ascii() from dual
it does not fly. You have to select the symbol like following to get correct code.
select ascii(substr(declinereasondesc, 30,1)) from DECLINEREASON t
where declinereasonid = 7;
In my case it gave 49827
then
select REGEXP_REPLACE(declinereasondesc, '(.+)('||chr(49827)||')(\d+)', '\1\3 (GBP)') from DECLINEREASON t;
and only then it works.