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Re: Isnumeric question

From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:59:53 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D0BBB.20030922165953@fatcity.com>

On 2003.09.22 20:15, Teresita Castro wrote:
> Hi!!
> I want to made something like this ina query
>
> select decode( isnumeric(line_comment), to_number(line_comment),0)
>
> how can I do this in Oracle?
>

my $line_comment;
my $sth=$dbh->prepare("Select line_comment from...."); $sth->execute();
$sth->bind_col(1,\$line_comment);
while ($sth->fetchrow_array() {
  if ( $line_comment =~ /^[0-9]+/) {......} }

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