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>Subject: Re: Searching for newline characters in a varchar
>From: GreMa_at_t-online.de (Matthias Gresz)
>Date: Tue, Oct 14, 1997 07:32 EDT
>Message-id: <61vl8s$8hu$1_at_news02.btx.dtag.de>
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>Bryan J. Gentile wrote:
>>
>> I want to find out how I can search through a variable of type varchar
>> and replace newline characters with something else. (PL/SQL)
>>
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>Hi,
>
>try
>
>SUBSTR(string,1,INSTR(string,chr(13))-1) || newchar
>||SUBSTR(string,INSTR(string,chr(13)) + 1,length(string))
>
>--
>Regards
>
>M.Gresz :-)
Well you could do that, but it will only find the first instance.
Try
my_string := replace(my_string,chr(13),null)
Note that the newline character is operating system specific. Substitute for chr(13) as necessary
Example
my_string := replace(my_string,chr(10),null);
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