| Removing duplicates in a string. [message #286996] |
Mon, 10 December 2007 16:51  |
Nirmala
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Is there a function which can do the following. I have a string say
'cat,dog,rat,cat,cat,dog' and i want the output as 'cat,dog,rat,'. The duplicates
should be removed in the string. can someone suggest a efficient way of doing this.
select some_function('cat,dog,rat,cat,cat,dog') from dual;
>> 'cat,dog,rat,'
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| Re: Removing duplicates in a string. [message #287014 is a reply to message #286996] |
Mon, 10 December 2007 23:03  |
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Michel Cadot
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You can do it in SQL:
- string to rows
- distinct
- rows to string
(search for these expressions)
By the way, this is just an exercise as you MUST never have this in a real system.
1NF says an attribute/a value/a field must be atomic.
Regards
Michel
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