How to count instances of character in SQL Column

问题:

I have an sql column that is a string of 100 'Y' or 'N' characters. For example:

YYNYNYYNNNYYNY...

What is the easiest way to get the count of all 'Y' symbols in each row.

回答1:

if ms sql

SELECT LEN(REPLACE(myColumn, 'N', '')) FROM ...

回答2:

This snippet works in the specific situation where you have a boolean: it answers "how many non-Ns are there?".

SELECT LEN(REPLACE(col, 'N', ''))

If, in a different situation, you were actually trying to count the occurrences of a certain character (for example 'Y') in any given string, use this:

SELECT LEN(col) - LEN(REPLACE(col, 'Y', ''))

回答3:

This gave me accurate results every time...

This is in my Stripes field... Yellow,Yellow,Yellow,Yellow,Yellow,Yellow,Black,Yellow,Yellow,Red,Yellow,Yellow,Yellow,Black

• 11 Yellows
• 2 Black
• 1 Red

SELECT (LEN(Stripes) - LEN(REPLACE(Stripes, 'Red', ''))) / LEN('Red') 
  FROM t_Contacts

回答4:

DECLARE @StringToFind VARCHAR(100) = "Text To Count"

SELECT (LEN([Field To Search]) - LEN(REPLACE([Field To Search],@StringToFind,'')))/COALESCE(NULLIF(LEN(@StringToFind), 0), 1) --protect division from zero
FROM [Table To Search]

回答5:

Maybe something like this...

SELECT
    LEN(REPLACE(ColumnName, 'N', '')) as NumberOfYs
FROM
    SomeTable

回答6:

The easiest way is by using Oracle function:

SELECT REGEXP_COUNT(COLUMN_NAME,'CONDITION') FROM TABLE_NAME

回答7:

try this

declare @v varchar(250) = 'test.a,1  ;hheuw-20;'
-- LF   ;
select len(replace(@v,';','11'))-len(@v)

回答8:

Try This. It determines the no. of single character occurrences as well as the sub-string occurrences in main string.

SELECT COUNT(DECODE(SUBSTR(UPPER(:main_string),rownum,LENGTH(:search_char)),UPPER(:search_char),1)) search_char_count
FROM DUAL
connect by rownum <= length(:main_string);

回答9:

If you want to count the number of instances of strings with more than a single character, you can either use the previous solution with regex, or this solution uses STRING_SPLIT, which I believe was introduced in SQL Server 2016. Also you’ll need compatibility level 130 and higher.

ALTER DATABASE [database_name] SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL = 130

.

--some data
DECLARE @table TABLE (col varchar(500))
INSERT INTO @table SELECT 'whaCHAR(10)teverCHAR(10)whateverCHAR(10)'
INSERT INTO @table SELECT 'whaCHAR(10)teverwhateverCHAR(10)'
INSERT INTO @table SELECT 'whaCHAR(10)teverCHAR(10)whateverCHAR(10)~'

--string to find
DECLARE @string varchar(100) = 'CHAR(10)'

--select
SELECT 
    col
  , (SELECT COUNT(*) - 1 FROM STRING_SPLIT (REPLACE(REPLACE(col, '~', ''), 'CHAR(10)', '~'), '~')) AS 'NumberOfBreaks'
FROM @table

回答10:

The second answer provided by nickf is very clever. However, it only works for a character length of the target sub-string of 1 and ignores spaces. Specifically, there were two leading spaces in my data, which SQL helpfully removes (I didn't know this) when all the characters on the right-hand-side are removed. Which meant that

" John Smith"

generated 12 using Nickf's method, whereas:

" Joe Bloggs, John Smith"

generated 10, and

" Joe Bloggs, John Smith, John Smith"

Generated 20.

I've therefore modified the solution slightly to the following, which works for me:

Select (len(replace(Sales_Reps,' ',''))- len(replace((replace(Sales_Reps, ' ','')),'JohnSmith','')))/9 as Count_JS

I'm sure someone can think of a better way of doing it!

回答11:

You can also Try This

-- DECLARE field because your table type may be text
DECLARE @mmRxClaim nvarchar(MAX) 

-- Getting Value from table
SELECT top (1) @mmRxClaim = mRxClaim FROM RxClaim WHERE rxclaimid_PK =362

-- Main String Value
SELECT @mmRxClaim AS MainStringValue

-- Count Multiple Character for this number of space will be number of character
SELECT LEN(@mmRxClaim) - LEN(REPLACE(@mmRxClaim, 'GS', ' ')) AS CountMultipleCharacter

-- Count Single Character for this number of space will be one
SELECT LEN(@mmRxClaim) - LEN(REPLACE(@mmRxClaim, 'G', '')) AS CountSingleCharacter

Output:

回答12:

Here's what I used in Oracle SQL to see if someone was passing a correctly formatted phone number:

WHERE REPLACE(TRANSLATE('555-555-1212','0123456789-','00000000000'),'0','') IS NULL AND
LENGTH(REPLACE(TRANSLATE('555-555-1212','0123456789','0000000000'),'0','')) = 2

The first part checks to see if the phone number has only numbers and the hyphen and the second part checks to see that the phone number has only two hyphens.

回答13:

for example to calculate the count instances of character (a) in SQL Column ->name is column name '' ( and in doblequote's is empty i am replace a with nocharecter @'')

select len(name)- len(replace(name,'a','')) from TESTING

select len('YYNYNYYNNNYYNY')- len(replace('YYNYNYYNNNYYNY','y',''))