Extract from text field

Question

Oracle 10. Can I extract just the phrase "in honor of Mr. James Smith" from a field that reads "Gift of $500 to the Brown Fund in honor of Mr. James Smith and $200 to the Connors Fund".
In most cases, the text will not include a second gift and the honor phrase will be at the end like this: "Gift of $500 to the Brown Fund in honor of Mr. James Smith" but there may be a second gift as in the first example.

Answer 1

Hi,
Try this This should work.
SQL> WITH T
  2       AS (SELECT 'Gift of $500 to the Brown Fund in honor of Mr. James Smith and $200 to the Connors Fund'
  3                     str
  4             FROM DUAL
  5           UNION ALL
  6           SELECT 'Gift of $500 to the Brown Fund in honor of Mr. Joe Chan and $200 to the Museum Fund'
  7                     str
  8             FROM DUAL
  9           UNION ALL
10           SELECT 'Gift of $500 to the Brown Fund in honor of Mr. Paul Townsend and $200 to the General Fund'
11                     str
12             FROM DUAL
13           UNION ALL
14           SELECT 'Gift of $500 to the some Fund in honor of Mr. Jon Peters' FROM DUAL)
15  SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE (REGEXP_SUBSTR (str, 'in honor of [^$]+', 1, 1), ' and $') str
16    FROM T;
STR
in honor of Mr. James Smith
in honor of Mr. Joe Chan
in honor of Mr. Paul Townsend
in honor of Mr. Jon Peters
SQL> G.