Re: changing charakters in long-datatypes

kacetl harald wrote:
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> Alan wrote:
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> > You can't do any string manipulations on a Long.
>
> hi alan,
>
> hmmm, do you mean it simply doesn't work or is there still a tricky way to
> overcome this problem?
> later one is what i expect to get out from the newsgroup.
>
> regards, harald

If its less than 32k, then you can fetch into a pl/sql variable and work with that...

HTH

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