Hey, I'll sue you for using my code. My code is fair and balanced and you
cannot use it
without paying royalties.
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On
> Behalf Of AK
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:20 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric
>
>
> I am not sure if there is any such function in 9i . But you
> can definnitely accomplish this by writing your own function
> something like
> function isNum(a varchar2) returns boolean is
> begin
> b := tonumber(a);
> result = true;
> return result;
> exception
> when (numer or value error) -- get proper exception
> result=false
> return result;
> end;
>
> same can be done for isDate as well.
>
> -ak
>
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> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:34 AM
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am investigating an effort to move our product into Oracle from
> > SQL
> Server. Came across the function isnumeric, isdate in SQL
> Server that returns true or false if the input string is in a
> form that can be converted into a numeric or date type.
> searched in oracle help and am not able to find an
> equivalent. Is there any equivalent form of these functions
> in Oracle??
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ShivaM
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