RE: Funny oracle character...

I copied and pasted it from the source site into a ms-windows sqlplus executed it and came up with:

DECLARE
   begin_time TIMESTAMP :=3D

      TO_TIMESTAMP('18-Sep-2002 07:35:00PM','dd-Mon-yyyy hh:mi:ssPM');    end_time TIMESTAMP :=3D

      TO_TIMESTAMP ('18-Sep-2002 07:35:30PM','dd-Mon-yyyy hh:mi:ssPM');

   difference INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND;
BEGIN
   difference :=3D end_time =D0 begin_time;    DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(difference);
END;

ORA-06550: line 9, column 28:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "=D0" when expecting one of the =
following:

   . ( * @ % & =3D - + ; < / > at in is mod not rem    <an exponent (**)> <> or !=3D or ~=3D >=3D <=3D <> and or like    between ||
The symbol ". was inserted before "=D0" to continue.

My guess is that somewhere BETWEEN writing and publishing the article = the
BETWEEN keyword got replaced by =D0. Probably some fancy xml processing = in
there.=20

Kind regards,
Eric.

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Van: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org =
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]
Namens Ruth Gramolini
Verzonden: donderdag 20 januari 2005 17:21 Aan: oracle-l
Onderwerp: FW: Funny oracle character...

Good morning all,
One of my developers asked me to find out what the strange symbol I have = put
in bold in this line is:days_in_2000 :=3D begin_2001 =D0 begin_2000;

He had seen it several times in the documentation. I can't reproduce it = to
do a search.

Anyone know about this?

Thanks in advance,
Ruth
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From: Stephen Peterson [mailto:speterson_at_tax.state.vt.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 4:14 PM To: Ruth Gramolini
Subject: Funny oracle character...

http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/02-nov/o62sql_online.html

Using Intervals

Intervals can be used for many things, but in this article I'm going to focus on datetime arithmetic. If you think about it, intervals are = really
nothing new. Consider the following code, which computes the difference between two dates in order to come up with the number of days in the = year
2000:

DECLARE
   begin_2000 DATE :=3D TO_DATE('1-Jan-2000','dd-Mon-yyyy');    begin_2001 DATE :=3D TO_DATE('1-Jan-2001','dd-Mon-yyyy');    days_in_2000 NUMBER;
BEGIN
   days_in_2000 :=3D begin_2001 =D0 begin_2000; END; /

Stephen C. Peterson
System Developer II
Vermont Department of Taxes
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Montpelier VT, 05602

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E: speterson_at_tax.state.vt.us

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