Oracle-L: RE: Format phone number

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 11:57:28 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00598BC5.20030514115728@fatcity.com>

Bob,

Use Substr like this:

SELECT DECODE(LENGTH('1234567890'),10,

                   '('||SUBSTR('1234567890',1,3) || ')' || 
                        SUBSTR('1234567890',4,3) || '-' ||
						SUBSTR('1234567890',7,4),
						           7,
                        SUBSTR('1234567890',1,3) || '-' ||
						SUBSTR('1234567890',4,4),

'1234567890') FROM dual

replace the string '1234567890' with the column from your table. the above will return correctly formatted columns of both 10 and 7 char in length.

hope this helps

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 12:22 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

All

Say I have a phone number char column with a length of 10 phone # is 2129779898

I want to create a view with the number displayed (212)977-9898

Something like

select to_char(phone_number, '(999)999-9999') from phone_numbers; ORA-01481: invalid number format model

But obiviously the to_char donst behave as a universial formatting / mask function.
The function seems to, to_char only dates and currency

I've searched google and orafaq but nothing jumped out.

I know someone on this list has the answer...

Thanks!
bob
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