I have a table which has data like below
mysql> mysql> SELECT * FROM STOCK_COMPANIES LIMIT 10;
+--------+--------------------------+------------------------+--------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Symbol | Company_name | Sector | Sub_industry | Headquarter |
+--------+--------------------------+------------------------+--------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| | Agilent Technologies Inc | Health Care | Health Care Equipment | Santa Clara; California
|American Airlines Group | Industrials | Airlines | Fort Worth; Texas
|Advance Auto Parts | Consumer Discretionary | Automotive Retail | Roanoke; Virginia
| | Apple Inc. | Information Technology | Computer Hardware | Cupertino; California
|V | AbbVie | Health Care | Pharmaceuticals | North Chicago; Illinois
|ABC | AmerisourceBergen Corp | Health Care | Health Care Distributors | Chesterbrook; Pennsylvania
| | Abbott Laboratories | Health Care | Health Care Equipment | North Chicago; Illinois
|centure plc | Information Technology | IT Consulting & Other Services | Dublin; Ireland
| | Adobe Systems Inc | Information Technology | Application Software | San Jose; California
| | Analog Devices; Inc. | Information Technology | Semiconductors | Norwood; Massachusetts
+--------+--------------------------+------------------------+--------------------------------+-----------------------------+
10 rows in set (0.00 sec)
I want to split the content of Headquarter by ; and get the last string. I executed the below command
mysql> SELECT Headquarter, SUBSTRING_INDEX(Headquarter, ';', -1) AS STATE FROM STOCK_COMPANIES LIMIT 10;
+-----------------------------+-----------------+
| Headquarter | STATE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------+
| Californialifornia
|| Texass
| | Virginia
| | Californiarnia
|Illinois; Illinois
| PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
|Illinois; Illinois
| | Ireland
| | Californiaia
| | Massachusettstts
+-----------------------------+-----------------+
Can someone explain to me why the output is looking like the above?
Even if I just try to display the Headquarter it is looking like below
mysql> SELECT Headquarter FROM STOCK_COMPANIES LIMIT 10;
+-----------------------------+
| Headquarter |
+-----------------------------+
|ta Clara; California
|h; Texas
|Virginia
|tino; California
|th Chicago; Illinois
|Chesterbrook; Pennsylvania
|th Chicago; Illinois
|land
|se; California
|ood; Massachusetts
+-----------------------------+
10 rows in set (0.00 sec)
I started mysql using -sN and executed the below queries. Both of them giving the expected output
mysql> SELECT Headquarter FROM STOCK_COMPANIES LIMIT 10;
Santa Clara; California
Fort Worth; Texas
Roanoke; Virginia
Cupertino; California
North Chicago; Illinois
Chesterbrook; Pennsylvania
North Chicago; Illinois
Dublin; Ireland
San Jose; California
Norwood; Massachusetts
mysql> SELECT TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(Headquarter, ';', -1)) AS STATE FROM STOCK_COMPANIES LIMIT 10;
California
Texas
Virginia
California
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ireland
California
Massachusetts
But if I am trying to execute the below query then again it is giving the below output which I am not able to understand
mysql> SELECT Headquarter, TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(Headquarter, ';', -1)) AS STATE FROM STOCK_COMPANIES LIMIT 10;
Californiaornia
Texasexas
Virginiaa
Californiania
Illinoisllinois
Pennsylvanialvania
Illinoisllinois
Ireland
Californiaia
Massachusettss
Can someone explain to me why I am not able to print Headquarter and TRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(Headquarter, ';', -1)) together?
Output of mysql -V
$ mysql -V
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.39, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
OS
$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description: CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)
Release: 7.4.1708
Codename: Core
You have carriage return characters in your data.
I suggest you clean them out of the data and fix your procedures for loading the data in the first place, so you don't have to filter them in all queries:
UPDATE STOCK_COMPANIES
SET headquarter = REPLACE('\r', '', headquarter);