I want to spit cell the value into two separate columns like f_name & l_nam

Question

Hi Guys,
I have excel data in one cell with ',' separated data.
sample data:
empno ename
121 ravi,kann
232 ram,raman
here ename value in one provided in one cell.
Now i want to spit cell the value into two separate columns like first_name and last_name?
Thanks in advance
-LK

Answer 1

with sample_data as
  select 121 empno, 'ravi,kann' ename from dual union all
  select 232 empno, 'ram,raman' from dual
select empno,
       substr(ename,1,instr(ename,',')-1) first_name,
       substr(ename,instr(ename,',')+1) last_name
from sample_data;       or with regular expressions:
with sample_data as
  select 121 empno, 'ravi,kann' ename from dual union all
  select 232 empno, 'ram,raman' from dual
select empno,
       regexp_substr(ename,'^[^,]*') first_name,
       regexp_substr(ename,'[^,]*$') last_name
from sample_data; Edited by: hm on 04.07.2012 06:22