First letter in the string

Hi,
I have a string "International Business Machine", but I want to refer as IBM (not as International Business Machine), So how do I get this value from my string. Is there any standard procedure/function available..
I want OCP from the strin 'Oracle Certified Professional'
Thanks,
Gladson

Hello,
If you happen to be on Oracle 10g you could use regular expressions. This extracts all capital letters regardless of location:
SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE('Oracle Certified Professional', '[^A-Z]') from dual
--> OCP
If you are pre-10g there are a bunch of ways to do this, I quite like this approach:
SELECT REPLACE(TRANSLATE('Oracle Certified Professional', LOWER('Oracle Certified Professional'), 'x'), 'x') from dual;
--> OCP
If your goal is to extract initial letters regardless of case you could use INITCAP around your source string.
The real answer depends on what your specification is but this should at least get you thinking about it.
Good Luck.

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