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How to find ASCII of every character in string using DB2 Function?

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.

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.

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