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To remove the special character from the starting of the string (merged) [message #426163] Wed, 14 October 2009 04:26 Go to next message
boopathi.it
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Registered: November 2007
Location: chennai
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Hi,

In the below query i want to remove the first three special from the string.

note :/// is not fixed.

SELECT TO_CHAR('///gggg///') a FROM dual

output:
-------
gggg///


SELECT TO_CHAR('//////gggg///') a FROM dual

output:
-------
gggg///

It possible to achieve the result without creating the function.

Many thanks
Boopathi.

Re: To remove the special character from the starting of the string [message #426166 is a reply to message #426163] Wed, 14 October 2009 04:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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Regards
Michel
Re: To remove special character from string [message #426168 is a reply to message #426163] Wed, 14 October 2009 04:33 Go to previous message
Its_me_ved
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use INSTR & SUBSTR
Find the 1st position of g using INSTR
and then use SUBSTR ..

Please do not multipost. See Michel Sir's reply. LTRIM would be more useful then this

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