Top "Substr" questions

In order to be able to simulate substr from PHP and mysql, I want to do something like select * from …

I have the following string in an Oracle 9i database: A,B,C, I need to replace all instances of …

I have various HTML strings to cut to 100 characters (of the stripped content, not the original) without stripping tags and …

I want to extract a word from a string column of a table. description =========================== abc order_id: 2 xxxx yyy aa …

I have a lot of strings, and I need to check if each of them contains a color. For example : …

I was looking for a Pascal equivalent for (for example) the php's substr function, which works like this: $new_string = …

I have the following string: Getty <- "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this …

When I use substr() I get a strange character at the end $articleText = substr($articleText,0,500); I have an output of 500 …

Could someone tell me, does the method like substr in PHP (http://pl2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php) …

I have the following string in a variable. Stack Overflow is as frictionless and painless to use as we could …