I have written a function in DB2 – that is calculating ASCII of records in a particular column. I want to some help as I want to check the ASCII of every single character in string return yes if the ASCII of that record is greater than 127.
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BEGIN
ATOMIC DECLARE POS,
INT;
IF INSTR IS NULL THEN RETURN NULL;
END IF;
SET
(
POS,
LEN
)=(
1,
LENGTH(INSTR)
);
WHILE POS <= LEN DO IF ASCII( SUBSTR( INSTR, POS, 1 ))> 128 THEN RETURN 'Y';
END IF;
SET
POS = POS + 1;
END WHILE;
RETURN 'N';
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Answer
Why to calculate ascii of every character in that column, if the goal is just to get such rows?
SELECT STR
FROM
(
VALUES
'Hello, world'
, 'Привет, мир'
) T (STR)
WHERE xmlcast(xmlquery('fn:matches($s, "[^x00-x7F]")' passing t.str as "s") as int) = 1;
The fn:matches function uses regular expressions.
The [^x00-x7F]
regular expression means “a character with hex value not in the 0x00 - 0x7F
interval”. If a value of passed t.str
contains such a character, the function returns 1 and 0 otherwise.