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Wed, 24 May 2006 07:58

ranisri321
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Registered: March 2006
Location: hyderabad

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iam doing project.in that i have one textitem for ex ename.
the client wants ename should accepts only alphabets and dot(.) and hipen(-)is there any code for this.
if u have pls send me
its very urgent

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Re: enter only characters and . and _ [message #173799 is a reply to message #173791]

Wed, 24 May 2006 08:29

ashishmate
Messages: 90
Registered: February 2005
Location: Mumbai

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Hi

You Can Use INSTR FUN fro this.
Google Will Help You About Instr.

ASHish...

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Re: enter only characters and . and _ [message #173919 is a reply to message #173799]

Thu, 25 May 2006 04:40

saadatahmad
Messages: 452
Registered: March 2005
Location: Germany/Paderborn

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djmartin has provided a very good solution in this post.

http://www.orafaq.com/forum/m/173262/67693/#msg_173262

Just you nees to add '.' and '-' in the code.

You code will be like

begin
   if rtrim (upper (:BLOCK_NAME.ITEM_NAME), ' ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-.') is not null then
      message ('The entry is not allowed');
      raise form_trigger_failure;
   end if;
end;

regards.

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