[xquery-talk] string manipulation
Ryan Grimm
grimm at oreilly.com
Sat Feb 4 23:28:15 PST 2006
Hi,
Fortunately XQuery has some really cool string manipulation functions.
One way to accomplish what you are looking for is:
string-join(tokenize("book/title/author", "/")[1 to last() - 1], "/")
This might look a bit more complicated then expected but it really
isn't bad if you break it down.
The tokenize() function will split up a string into tokens based on the
second argument. So tokenize("book/title/author", "/") will return a
sequence of three tokens ("book", "title", "author"). The [1 to last()
- 1] part is going to select the first of these tokens through the
second to last one. This will leave you with a sequence of: ("book",
"title"). Lastly we can join that sequence back together with the
string-join() function thus adding back in the /'s.
This will always strip off the rest of the string after the last "/"
regardless of how many /'s there are. So if you have something like:
book/title/pubdate/author you will get back: book/title/pubdate.
Hope that helps.
--Ryan
On Feb 4, 2006, at 11:05 PM, fatma helmy wrote:
> dear all
> i am trying to use string manipulation in xquery to
> truncate the last part of a string for example
> suppose my string is book/title/author i need to
> truncate starting from the last / so it will become
> book/title only , i need to do this for varied length
> strings
>
>
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