{"id":9908,"date":"2017-02-13T06:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/?p=9908"},"modified":"2019-03-13T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T09:33:18","slug":"extracts-the-nth-character-of-a-char-or-clob-variable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/2017\/02\/13\/extracts-the-nth-character-of-a-char-or-clob-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"Extracts the Nth character of a CHAR or CLOB variable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This function extracts the Nth character of a CHAR or CLOB variable. This function runs much faster than the usual functions such as mid$or seg$ when managing large CLOB data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syntax<\/strong>: EXTRACTED_CHARACTER=Xgetchar(CLOB_SOURCE,POSITION)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parameters<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CLOB_SOURCE <\/strong>has been declared by using a Clbfile or a Char<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>POSITION <\/strong>has been declared by using an Integer<\/li>\n<li><strong>EXTRACTED_CHARACTER <\/strong>has been declared by using a Clbfile or a Char<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p># Find the 10th character in a CLOB<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Local <\/span>Clbfile<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> PI_CHAR(0)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Local Char CHAR10<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 PI_CHAR=num$(pi) : # contains &#8220;3.14158265358979323846264338328&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 CHAR10=Xgetchar(PI_CHAR,10) : # Returns &#8220;5&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hope this blog helps!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: Medium;\"><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/\">Greytrix<\/a> \u2013 a globally recognized Premier Sage Gold Development Partner is a one-stop solution provider for Sage ERP and Sage CRM needs. 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Syntax: EXTRACTED_CHARACTER=Xgetchar(CLOB_SOURCE,POSITION) Parameters: CLOB_SOURCE has been declared by using a Clbfile or a Char \u00a0POSITION has been declared by using an Integer EXTRACTED_CHARACTER has been\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/2017\/02\/13\/extracts-the-nth-character-of-a-char-or-clob-variable\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,333,1239,1342,1795,1796],"class_list":["post-9908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-erp-x3","tag-char","tag-clob","tag-manage-large-clob-data","tag-nth-character-of-a-char","tag-sage-erp-x3-technical","tag-sage-erp-x3-technical-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17375,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/17375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sagex3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}