Oracle-L: RE: Replacing control chars

From: Thomas Jeff <ThomasJe_at_tce.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:43:46 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00526B06.20030103094346@fatcity.com>

REPLACE/TRANSLATE. Go to http://asktom.oracle.com/ and query 'remove control characters'.

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Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:09 PM
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Hello Listers,
I was asked if there is any procedure that could be called from a trigger to replace (with a blank) or remove all non-printable characters from the text before inserting it in the target table? The incoming data is from a Web interface and may contain underline, bold, blink, NL characters. Target column should get characters 0-9, A-Z and a-z. The data should not be rejected.

I suggested use of 'replace', but was asked if I had anything already written to do this. And I have not.

Done anyone have anything to share?

Thanks.

Kirti

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