Jared's passion to regular expessions is understandable after book "Perl for
Oracle DBAs" :)
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> Yes, but not nearly as flexible as owa_pattern, and infinitely
> more difficult to read.
>
> Jared
>
> On Monday 01 July 2002 14:33, Kirsch, Walter J (Northrop Grumman) wrote:
> > Actually, it's simpler to use the trick
> >
> > select translate('abc123def432', '~1234567890','~') from dual;
> >
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> > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 4:23 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Yes, use regular expressions via the owa_pattern package.
> >
> > Here's an example:
> >
> > declare
> > tstr varchar2(100) := 'this c34ontains s0239everal 2340 numeric 882
> > dig2its';
> > begin
> > dbms_output.put_line( tstr);
> > -- remove the digits
> > owa_pattern.change( tstr, '\d', '', 'g');
> > dbms_output.put_line( tstr);
> > -- remove the extra spaces
> > owa_pattern.change( tstr, '\s+', ' ', 'g');
> > dbms_output.put_line( tstr);
> > end;
> > /
> >
> > Jared
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Nils Höglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 07/01/2002 04:18 AM
> > Please respond to ORACLE-L
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> >
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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> > cc:
> > Subject: Remove numbers from string
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there any way to remove all numbers from a string?
> >
> > The string might look like this: 'abc123def432'
> > and I wan't it to look like this: 'abcdef'.
> >
> > I'm using Oracle 8.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
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