SQL to work with character string

Question

I've got a simple bit of SQL:
SELECT DISTINCT pj.NAME job_title
              , LENGTH(pj.NAME) len
              , INSTR(pj.NAME, ':', 3, 1) find
           FROM hr.per_jobs pj;This lists job titles, their length, and the position of the first ":" in the job title. E.g:
JOB_TITLE              |LEN    |FIND
Acc Asst/Auditor::::   |20     |17
Acc Asst/Auditor:A:::  |21     |17What I'd like to do is to use SQL to output the character to the right of the 1st ":" in the job title. E.g. in the above 2 rows, that'd be a ':' for row 1, and an 'A' for the second row.
I can export the job titles out to Excel and use that to do what I want, but I wanted to see if there was a way to use SQL to do it.
In Excel the LEFT() and RIGHT() functions allow me to do the trick, but I can't see how to do it using SQL. I can see that there are LPAD and RPAD functions, but I don't think they do the same job.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks!
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Answer 1

Hi,
Given below is the query:
CREATE TABLE x5( c1 VARCHAR2(50));
INSERT INTO x5 VALUES ('Acc Asst/Auditor::::');
INSERT INTO x5 VALUES ('Acc Asst/Auditor:A:::');
COMMIT;
C1 LENGTH(C1) POSITION C
Acc Asst/Auditor:::: 20 17 :
Acc Asst/Auditor:A::: 21 17 A
SELECT
c1,
LENGTH(c1),
INSTR(c1, ':') position,
SUBSTR(c1, INSTR(c1, ':') + 1, 1) char_right
FROM
x5;
Hope it helps,
Muthu