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Re: function to get only numbers

From: Benjamin.Altman <benjamin.altman_at_noaa.gov>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 12:25:33 -0400
Message-ID: <3B45E67D.E2DAACF4@noaa.gov> 






Haven't tried this out, but instead of a for loop, wouldn't this be better?:


    nodigits := TRANSLATE(charnum,'1234567890') ;
    parsechar := TRANSLATE(charnum, nodigits);




Philippe Makowski wrote:



>   for i in 1..longueur loop

>      current_digit := SUBSTR(charnum, i, 1);

>      if current_digit between '0' and '9' then

>         parsechar := parsechar || current_digit;

>      end if;

>   end loop;

Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 11:25:33 CDT












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