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Re: Oracle For Fun

From: Mark Townsend <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 02:50:25 GMT
Message-ID: <Rx_Rb.178051$na.289499@attbi_s04>


Daniel Morgan wrote:
> Frank van Bortel wrote:
>

>> <g> COuld you make that a regular? I'd like that.

>
>
> My pleasure. I can't remember if I've done this one before ... but in
> the US telephone numbers with area code are always in the form
> ###-###-####.
>
> Write a simple function that will return a Boolean (True/False) as to
> whether something has the format of a valid telephone number with area
> code. It must check for the following:
>
> Three integers between 0 and 9
> Followed by a dash '-'
> Followed by three integers between 0 and 9
> Followed by a dash '-'
> Followed by four integers
> The length must be 12.
>
> Hint: When I run the following query:
> select * from user_source where name = <function_name>;
> it returns only 7 lines of code.
>

Can I use 10g Regexs ? Received on Wed Jan 28 2004 - 20:50:25 CST

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