RE: Conversion of a varchar2 to a number

Can you send your function?

Thanks
Rick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yosi_at_comhill.com [SMTP:Yosi_at_comhill.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 4:42 PM
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> Subject: RE: Conversion of a varchar2 to a number
>
> Dave,
>
> I inherited phone number fields where some of the records had chars
> in them and some did not (some were entered with '()' and '-', others
> were just numeric.
>
> It was easy enough to create a function I called stripchars (str1, str2)
> which strips all occurences of any char in str2 out of str1. It may be
> faster to actually do a to_number and handle exceptions, I don't know.
> However, I've since found plenty of uses for the stripchars function.
>
> If you want it I can send it to you.
>
> Yosi
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Turner [mailto:turner_at_elvis.mu.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:46 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Conversion of a varchar2 to a number
> >
> >
> > I have a user that has a phone number field that is stored as
> > a varchar2 and some of the data actually has letters in it. When
> > he tries to do a TO_NUMBER it fails of course on the records that
> > have letters in them.
> >
> > To perform the conversion I thought using a cursor and handling the
> > exceptions would work, but wanted to see if other people had a better
> > way of doing this.
> >
> > Thanks, Dave Turner
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