Re: date format ?

Mohammed,

Just off the top of my head, I don't think this will work unless you bring the day, month and year in separately. At first glance I thought perhaps if you took the length of the date string (less than 6 or more than eight you've got an error), backed out the last four as the year - so far so good, but the day/month is a problem. How would you evaluate '212' - as 2 December or 21 February?

Regards,

David A. Barbour
Oracle DBA, OCP

MOHAMMAD AMER wrote:
>
> hi oracle gurus,
> my client is very weird,he wants to enter the date in the format 'dd-mm-yyyy'
> without pressing space instead of delimiters,e.g. he presses
> '991999' and wants oracle to change it to '09-09-1999' .!!!
> Can I do it for him?
> If anyone knows how,I'll be very grateful.
>
> stucked with date formats
>
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