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Re: extract and strip out last name combined name column

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:24:24 -0700
Message-ID: <1189697056.140881@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


jobs wrote:
> I'm on oracle 9i and don't have regex functionality in plsql.

Regular expressions do exist in 9i and even in 8i. Look at the OWA_MATCH and OWA_PATTERN built-in packages documented at http://tahiti.oracle.com.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Thu Sep 13 2007 - 10:24:24 CDT

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