Re: A brief detour....;-)

Bobak, Mark wrote:
> Nice solution! I had first briefly considered a SQL solution, but it didn't

I like simple ones.

> immediately come to mind, and the PL/SQL recursive solution was pretty
> straightforward, so, I went that direction. I wasn't really too concerned
> about expense, in this case....;-) I don't see too many practical
> applications. ;-)

I did not want to discuss this particular case. It's a good one. Good as an example.

There was/is a practical application of recursive solution (< 9i) -- check standard.replace which is not so nice if it's heavily used.

regards,

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