A fairly simple string manipulation, I think!

Question

Hi, would be most grateful for some help on the following as
getting close, but can't quite master it.
I have thousands of records in one field in a sql 2000
database in the following format
racehorsename odds-odds-odds (country) i.e Stravinsky 3-9-7
(USA)
Basically I want to move the country from the end of the
string to in between horesname and odds
so result on above would look like Stravinsky (USA) 3-9-7
A few point to note
The odds can either be in "x-x" or "x-x-x" format or a not
present (in which case no action required)
County maybe a variation from 3 or 2 digits i.e (USA) or (UK)
or not present at all in whihc case no action required
many thanks
Oli

Answer 1

there may be a more elegant solution (probably involving
regex), but assuming there's little to no variance in the syntax,
use list functions with a space as a delimiter.
<cfset foo = "Stravinsky 3-9-7 (USA)" />
<cfset newfoo = listFirst(foo, ' ') & listLast(foo, '
') & listGetAt(foo, 2, ' ') />
odds being x-x or x-x-x wouldn't matter. length of country
abbreviation wouldn't matter. all that would matter would be the
inclusion of additional spaces (like if the horse name has a space
in it).