Re: Null values

Roland,

The 'nvl' function in the code you posted does handle null values, converting nulls to ' 0' before turning them into a character via to_char.

You should actually remove the space in ' 0', as it is forcing an implicit conversion back to a number for to_char.

Jared

On Monday 11 June 2001 01:45, Roland.Skoldblom_at_ica.se wrote:
> Hallo you DBA's:
>
> How can I modify in this script to make it handle also null values. This
> script only handles 0-values. Hope anyone can help me with this.
>
> vOWNERSHIP_NO:= rpad(to_char(nvl(recCursor.OWNERSHIP_NO,' 0')),2,' ');
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Roland Sköldblom

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