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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Assign a variable the nth character of a string. Post 302776383 by klarue on Wednesday 6th of March 2013 08:29:54 AM
Old 03-06-2013
Solution

I found that this works

Code:
bankid=$1
stmttype=$2
jdd=`date '+%j'`

stid=$(expr substr $2 1 1)

echo "ID: $stid"

 

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OCI_FETCH(3)															      OCI_FETCH(3)

oci_fetch - Fetches the next row from a query into internal buffers

SYNOPSIS
bool oci_fetch (resource $statement) DESCRIPTION
Fetches the next row from a query into internal buffers accessible either with oci_result(3), or by using variables previously defined with oci_define_by_name(3). See oci_fetch_array(3) for general information about fetching data. PARAMETERS
o $statement -A valid OCI8 statement identifier created by oci_parse(3) and executed by oci_execute(3), or a REF CURSOR statement identifier. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE if there are no more rows in the $statement. EXAMPLES
Example #1 oci_fetch(3) with defined variables <?php $conn = oci_connect('hr', 'welcome', 'localhost/XE'); if (!$conn) { $e = oci_error(); trigger_error(htmlentities($e['message'], ENT_QUOTES), E_USER_ERROR); } $sql = 'SELECT location_id, city FROM locations WHERE location_id < 1200'; $stid = oci_parse($conn, $sql); // The defines MUST be done before executing oci_define_by_name($stid, 'LOCATION_ID', $locid); oci_define_by_name($stid, 'CITY', $city); oci_execute($stid); // Each fetch populates the previously defined variables with the next row's data while (oci_fetch($stid)) { echo "Location id $locid is $city<br> "; } // Displays: // Location id 1000 is Roma // Location id 1100 is Venice oci_free_statement($stid); oci_close($conn); ?> Example #2 oci_fetch(3) with oci_result(3) <?php $conn = oci_connect('hr', 'welcome', 'localhost/XE'); if (!$conn) { $e = oci_error(); trigger_error(htmlentities($e['message'], ENT_QUOTES), E_USER_ERROR); } $sql = 'SELECT location_id, city FROM locations WHERE location_id < 1200'; $stid = oci_parse($conn, $sql); oci_execute($stid); while (oci_fetch($stid)) { echo oci_result($stid, 'LOCATION_ID') . " is "; echo oci_result($stid, 'CITY') . "<br> "; } // Displays: // 1000 is Roma // 1100 is Venice oci_free_statement($stid); oci_close($conn); ?> NOTES
Note Will not return rows from Oracle Database 12 c Implicit Result Sets. Use oci_fetch_array(3) instead. SEE ALSO
oci_define_by_name(3), oci_fetch_all(3), oci_fetch_array(3), oci_fetch_assoc(3), oci_fetch_object(3), oci_fetch_row(3), oci_result(3). PHP Documentation Group OCI_FETCH(3)
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