Re: Parsing a string

Hi guys:

I have a string like

$select = SELECT * FROM aTable WHERE aColumn='something' ORDER BY anotherColumn

and want to parse this to variables such

fields = "*"
from = "aTable"
where = "aColumn='something' "
order = "anotherColumn"

so i made this:

    <xsl:attribute name="fields">
        <xsl:value-of
select="substring-before(substring-after($select,'SELECT'),'FROM')"/>
    </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="from">
        <xsl:value-of
select="substring-before(substring-after($select,'FROM'),'WHERE')"/>
    </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="where">
        <xsl:value-of
select="substring-before(substring-after($select,'WHERE'),'ORDER BY')"/>
    </xsl:attribute>
     <xsl:attribute name="order">
        <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($select,'ORDER BY')"/>
    </xsl:attribute>

This works, off-course, when $select is writen in that way, but if it is, for
instance

SELECT * FROM aTable ORDER BY anotherColumn
SELECT * FROM aTable ORDER BY anotherColumn WHERE aColumn='something'

and worst

SELECT * FROM aTable WHERE aColumn=(SELECT aColumn FROM anotherTable WHERE
anotherColumn='somethingelse')

then it won't work. Of course i can put a lot of  xsl:if and xsl:when, but
hopefuly there's another way to do it.

Someone has any ideia?

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