Re: sqlplus formatting question

Hi,

You can try the following :-

SELECT REPLACE(<FIELD NAME>, '<SEARCH CHAR>', '<REPLACE CHAR>') FROM <TABLE NAME> Say for example Select Replace(ename, ' ', '_') from emp

Bye
Sundar

John Dunn wrote:

> I want to display a varchar2 field that contains spaces between words i.e
> MY NAME, but replace the spaces with underscores on the report i.e MY_NAME
>
> How can I do this in sqlplus?
>
> John
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