Re: Oracle eval() function?

You can just do a select from dual

select (5+2*(3+200)/2)
from dual

and just use SELECT INTO to get it into a variable

DECLARE
   sample_num number(10);
BEGIN
   SELECT (5+2*(3+200)/2) INTO sample_num FROM dual; END; Barry

<thycotic_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8bogpp$q84$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Does anybody know how to get Oracle to evaluate a string
> as an expression in PL/SQL?
> Something similar to the eval functions of VB, JavaScript and Perl.
> e.g. eval("5+2*(3+200)/2")
> Not having to write a custom function would be preferable...
> TIA,
> J
>
>
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Received on Tue Mar 28 2000 - 00:00:00 CST