FW: Funny oracle character...

Good morning all,
One of my developers asked me to find out what the strange symbol I have put in bold in this line is:days_in_2000 := begin_2001 Ð begin_2000;

He had seen it several times in the documentation. I can't reproduce it to do a search.

Anyone know about this?

Thanks in advance,
Ruth
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From: Stephen Peterson [mailto:speterson_at_tax.state.vt.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:14 PM To: Ruth Gramolini
Subject: Funny oracle character...

http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/02-nov/o62sql_online.html

Using Intervals

Intervals can be used for many things, but in this article I'm going to focus on datetime arithmetic. If you think about it, intervals are really nothing new. Consider the following code, which computes the difference between two dates in order to come up with the number of days in the year 2000:

DECLARE
   begin_2000 DATE := TO_DATE('1-Jan-2000','dd-Mon-yyyy');    begin_2001 DATE := TO_DATE('1-Jan-2001','dd-Mon-yyyy');    days_in_2000 NUMBER;
BEGIN
   days_in_2000 := begin_2001 Ð begin_2000; END;
/

Stephen C. Peterson
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