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<h1 class="topictitle1">Example: String search </h1>
<div><p>Suppose you have written a UDF to look for the existence of a given
short string, passed as an argument, within a given CLOB value
that is also passed as an argument. The UDF returns the position of the string
within the CLOB if it finds the string, or zero if it does not.</p>
<div class="section"><p>The C program was written to return a FLOAT result. Suppose you
know that when it is used in SQL, it should always return an INTEGER. You
can create the following function:</p>
<pre> <strong>CREATE FUNCTION</strong> FINDSTRING (<strong>CLOB</strong>(500K), <strong>VARCHAR</strong>(200))
<strong>RETURNS INTEGER
CAST FROM FLOAT</strong>
<strong>SPECIFIC</strong> FINDSTRING
<strong>EXTERNAL NAME</strong> 'MYLIB/MYPGM(FINDSTR)'
<strong>LANGUAGE C
PARAMETER STYLE DB2SQL
NO SQL
DETERMINISTIC
NO EXTERNAL ACTION
RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT</strong></pre>
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<div class="section"><p>Note that a CAST FROM clause is used to specify that the UDF program
really returns a FLOAT value, but you want to cast this to INTEGER before
returning the value to the SQL statement which used the UDF. Also, you want
to provide your own specific name for the function. Because the UDF was not
written to handle NULL values, you use the RETURNS NULL ON NULL INPUT.</p>
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