How would you take the same string "/dir1/dir2/test/file.out", and return
"file.out".  Assume you do not know where the last '/' is or how many there
are.  What I need is a reverse instr function.  Find the last occurrance of
'/', not the first.

Can it be done in sqlplus???

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