RE: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

Steve,

  If you are patient, I guess that something like

   where dump(problem_column) like '%<target hex>%'

should more or less answer your question.

HTH SF

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: "Steve Main" <smain_at_iceboxllc.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
><ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Sent: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:44:26
>
>Hello list,
>
>I have an application that is choking on the
>following error,
>
>"...invalid character (Unicode: 0x19) was found in
>the element
>content..."
>
>Does anyone know how I could go about searching for
>this "invalid"
>character?
>
>Thanks
>
>Steve
>

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