John,

try:

select replace('first middle last',' ','_') from dual

Tom Mercadante
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I want to display a varchar2 field that contains spaces between words  i.e
MY NAME, but replace the spaces with underscores on the report i.e MY_NAME

How can I do this in sqlplus?

John


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