RE: how to retrieve numeric values only from a varchar2?

Just when I think I'm cought up on the Oracle-installed PL/SQL packages...

Seeing as OWA_PATTERN isn't in the docs (not on tahiti, anyway), is it supported???

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com [mailto:Jared.Still_at_radisys.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:58 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: how to retrieve numeric values only from a varchar2?
>
>
> Use owa_pattern.
>
> See $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/pubpat.sql
>
> Here's an example:
>
> declare
> tstr varchar2(100) := 'this string has 382 embedded numeric data';
> begin
> dbms_output.put_line( tstr);
> -- remove the digits
> owa_pattern.change( tstr, '\D', '', 'g');
> dbms_output.put_line( tstr);
> end;
> /
>
> Jared

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