RE: regular expression to get ORA- errors out of text

From: Herring Dave - dherri <Dave.Herring_at_acxiom.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:33:22 -0600
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Depending on the volume, you may want to play with different options to see which works best for you. We've got instances where millions of rows are being checked and I found that using 'i' for case insensitivity was actually slower than using UPPER().

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Tanel Poder Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 10:26 PM To: goryunov.oracle.l_at_gmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: regular expression to get ORA- errors out of text

Hi Andrey,
 

SQL> define str="    ORA-00001 ora-0002     ora   ora-003    aasdlkja alksdj alksdj laskdj  ORA-04 aaaa a  a a aora-5   "
SQL>
SQL> select regexp_substr('&str', 'ora-[[:digit:]]{1,5}', 1, level, 'i')

  2  from dual
  3  connect by regexp_substr('&str', 'ora-[[:digit:]]{1,5}', 1, level, 'i') is not null
  4  /
 

REGEXP_SUBSTR('ORA-00001ORA-0002ORAORA-003AASDLKJAALKSDJALKSDJLASKDJORA-04AAAAAAAAORA-5','ORA-[[:DIGIT:
ORA-00001
ora-0002
ora-003
ORA-04
ora-5

 

5 rows selected.
 

SQL>
 
--
Tanel Poder
http://blog.tanelpoder.com

 
 
________________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Andrey Goryunov Sent: 14 February 2009 20:34 To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: regular expression to get ORA- errors out of text Hi All, what regular expression would you suggest to get all ORA- errors (with from 1 to 5 numbers) out of some text like this: '    ORA-00001 ora-0002     ora   ora-003    aasdlkja alksdj alksdj laskdj  ORA-04 aaaa a  a a aora-5   ' I am trying to figure out how to use regexp_replace to replace all characters around ora-... errors to get output: 'ORA-00001 ora-0002 ora-003 ORA-04 ora-5' but can't find appropriate expression so far: with s1 as (select '    ORA-00001 ora-0002     ora   ora-003    aasdlkja alksdj alksdj laskdj  ORA-04 aaaa a  a a aora-5   ' s from dual) select regexp_replace(s, '...', '...', 1, 0, 'i') from s1 / -- Regards, Andrey Goryunov *************************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. **************************************************************************** -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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