Re: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

Peter, i would be interested in that.
can you mail it to me ?

Dias Costa

Robson, Peter wrote:

>Yes, exactly Stephane -
>
>Non-printable characters like this are a proper pest in our environment, to
>the extent that I have exception reports running every night looking for
>them (cannot trust the users...).
>
>I have a small PL/SQL piece of code used to detect these things, if anyone
>wants it.
>
>peter
>edinburgh
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:54 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
>Steve,
>
> If you are patient, I guess that something like
>
> where dump(problem_column) like '%<target hex>%'
>
>should more or less answer your question.
>
>HTH
>
>SF
>
>
>
>>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>>From: "Steve Main" <smain_at_iceboxllc.com>
>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>><ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>>Sent: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:44:26
>>
>>Hello list,
>>
>>I have an application that is choking on the
>>following error,
>>
>>"...invalid character (Unicode: 0x19) was found in
>>the element
>>content..."
>>
>>Does anyone know how I could go about searching for
>>this "invalid"
>>character?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Steve
>>
>>
>>

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