First character in each word

Question

Hello All,
I want to get the first character of each word:
If I have "Statement To Be Parsed" so i want a query to return STBP.
Your help please

Answer 1

Hi,
NB wrote:
Hello Franck,
One more thing i have the below case which is not covered
"Test STMT Func/ Brg E.O.D Act ON LINE/ Ext" i want it to be TSF/BEAOL/E
please your help againINITCAP conisders '.' to mark the end of a word, so INITCAP ('E.O.D.') returns 'E.O.D.' (all capital letters). If you want to ignore '.'s, so that you get 'Eod' (only 'E' capitalized) as a result, then use REPLACE (or some other string manipulation function) to get rid of the '.'s before calling INITCAP.
REGEXP_REPLACE (str, '[^A-Z]') returns a copy of str with all characters except those indicated inside the square brackets removed. If you want other characters (such as '/') kept, then just add them to the list inside the square brackets, like this:
SELECT     REGEXP_REPLACE ( INITCAP ( REPLACE ( 'Test STMT Func/ Brg E.O.D Act ON LINE/ Ex'
                 , '[^A-Z/]'
                 )     AS inits
FROM    dual;Output:
INITS
TSF/BEAOL/E