Hi,
I'm not sure about what you intend to do, but i suppose you want to extract
the initial digits of your string until the delimiter comma. If I'm right,
you could try use SUBSTR and not RTRIM.
HTH
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Nilo <npaim123_at_zaz.com.br>
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Bret <bret.hill_at_tstnet.com> escreveu nas notícias de
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> Oracle 8.0.5
> I cannot find an example for what I am trying to do - I want to parse a
> string using rtrim but am having trouble.
> Here is a sample of what I am trying to do:
>
> declare col1 varchar2(10);
> begin
> col1:=rtrim('1111,2222,3333,4444',',');
> DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(col1);
> end;
>
> These are the messages I get:
>
> ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error
> ORA-06512: at line 3
>
> What am I doing wrong? - I've tried declaring col1 as a char(10), also
> I've tried selecting into it, but nothing seems to work.
>
Received on Tue Sep 28 1999 - 21:46:47 CDT
