假設字符串中只由'A'、'B'、'C'、'D'組成,且長度為7。並設函數REPLICATE(<字符串>,<n>)可以創建一個<字符串>的n個副本的字符串,另外還有REPLACE(<目標字符串>,<老字符串>,<新字符串>),實現如下:
1 BEGIN
2 DECLARE inString CHAR(7);
3 SET inString = 'DCDBAAB';
4
5 REPLICATE('A', (DATA_LENGTH(inString)-DATA_LENGTH(REPLACE(inString,'A',''))))
6 ||
7 REPLICATE('B', (DATA_LENGTH(inString)-DATA_LENGTH(REPLACE(inString,'B',''))))
8 ||
9 REPLICATE('C', (DATA_LENGTH(inString)-DATA_LENGTH(REPLACE(inString,'C',''))))
10 ||
11 REPLICATE('D', (DATA_LENGTH(inString)-DATA_LENGTH(REPLACE(inString,'D',''))))
12
13 END;