SQL INSTR() String Function as a dynamic parameter

Joshua Otwell
Level Up Coding
Published in
6 min readAug 12, 2021

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At some point in the programming workflow, you have to work with character and text data. I’m sure some languages are better at parsing strings than others. However, most all programming languages have constructs or functions available for processing string data. In this post, I’m covering the Oracle SQL INSTR() function, which returns the specific location — as a numeric value — of a string within a string (substring).

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