Message-Id: <10710.124545@fatcity.com> From: "Cale, Rick T (Richard)" Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 02:30:16 -0800 Subject: RE: Conversion of a varchar2 to a number Can you send your function? Thanks Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Yosi@comhill.com [SMTP:Yosi@comhill.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 4:42 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Conversion of a varchar2 to a number > > Dave, > > I inherited phone number fields where some of the records had chars > in them and some did not (some were entered with '()' and '-', others > were just numeric. > > It was easy enough to create a function I called stripchars (str1, str2) > which strips all occurences of any char in str2 out of str1. It may be > faster to actually do a to_number and handle exceptions, I don't know. > However, I've since found plenty of uses for the stripchars function. > > If you want it I can send it to you. > > Yosi > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David Turner [mailto:turner@elvis.mu.org] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 1:46 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: Conversion of a varchar2 to a number > > > > > > I have a user that has a phone number field that is stored as > > a varchar2 and some of the data actually has letters in it. When > > he tries to do a TO_NUMBER it fails of course on the records that > > have letters in them. > > > > To perform the conversion I thought using a cursor and handling the > > exceptions would work, but wanted to see if other people had a better > > way of doing this. > > > > Thanks, Dave Turner > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > > -- > > Author: David Turner > > INET: turner@elvis.mu.org > > > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: Yosi@comhill.com > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).