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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: PL/SQL : how to drop all the white characters from a string
THANX a lot to all who replied !!!
DBAndrey
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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 7:32 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
You guys are all doing this the hard way!
Regular expressions to the rescue!
Here's a complete test:
declare
tstr varchar2(100) := 'this contains tabs multiple spaces and
single spaces';
begin
dbms_output.put_line( tstr); owa_pattern.change( tstr, '\s', '', 'g'); dbms_output.put_line( tstr);
You may have to run $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/owacomm.sql to build the regular expression packages.
Read $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/pubpat.sql for details.
Want to know more about regular expressions? Read the perl docs on regular
expressions, look
in 'Programming Perl', or if you're really hard core, get Jeffrey Friedl's
book 'Mastering Regular Expressions'
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/
Jared
Andrey Bronfin
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root_at_fatcity.com
09/05/01 05:05 AM
Please respond to
ORACLE-L
Dear all !
I need a PL/SQL proc that will drop all the white characters (spaces , tabs
, enters etc.. ) from a string stored in a VARCHAR column
I'm not trying to load my work to others , but ... if U have such a proc
ready , would U please share .
Thanks a lot in advance.
DBAndrey
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