Separating values for a column in Discoverer

Hi All,
I have a column "Address" which gives City,State,Zip,Country.
For example,
Address
San Jose, CA, 95101, USA.
I want to separate these and display in different columns like
City State Zip Country
San Jose CA 95101 USA
Is there any function in Discoverer to separate these values?
Thanks,
Gran

Hi,
You have to substr and instr to split in a calculation to break up the field. For example,
LTRIM(SUBSTR(address, INSTR(address, ',', 1, 1)+1, INSTR(address, ',', 1, 2) - INSTR(address, ',', 1, 1) -1))
to extract the second part.
Alternatively, you could write your own function.
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