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Re: Field scan question - PL/SQL trigger

From: Sandy Thrasher <sandra.thrasher_at_MCI2000.com>
Date: 1998/01/15
Message-ID: <jOlv.2164$An2.668594@news.internetMCI.com>#1/1

Jim.Pickett_at_cubic.com wrote in message ...
>I have been asked to develop a trigger that will allow me to parse
>a VARCHAR2(30) field to see if it contains an asterisk or double
>quote.

There's an Oracle FUNCTION called INSTR which will look for the occurence of a character in a string. I think this will solve your problem.

Sandy Received on Thu Jan 15 1998 - 00:00:00 CST

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