Supported?
It's been around for several years, beginning with the first version
of Oracle's App server. I guess it's supported.
It seems to be bug free, and is based on std regular expression
definitions. The source is included as well.
Jared
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Just when I think I'm cought up on the Oracle-installed PL/SQL packages...
Seeing as OWA_PATTERN isn't in the docs (not on tahiti, anyway), is it
supported???
Rich
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> Use owa_pattern.
>
> See $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/pubpat.sql
>
> Here's an example:
>
> declare
> tstr varchar2(100) := 'this string has 382 embedded numeric data';
> begin
> dbms_output.put_line( tstr);
> -- remove the digits
> owa_pattern.change( tstr, '\D', '', 'g');
> dbms_output.put_line( tstr);
> end;
> /
>
> Jared
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