Oracle-L: RE: Format phone number

From: Odland, Brad <Brad.Odland_at_qtiworld.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 11:51:45 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00598B97.20030514115145@fatcity.com>

Look up SUBSTR and || ....oh hell here....

select '(' || SUBSTR(phone_number,1,3) || ')' || SUBSTR(phone_number,4,3) || '-' || SUBSTR(phone_number,4,4) from phone_numbers

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All

Say I have a phone number char column with a length of 10 phone # is 2129779898

I want to create a view with the number displayed (212)977-9898

Something like

select to_char(phone_number, '(999)999-9999') from phone_numbers; ORA-01481: invalid number format model

But obiviously the to_char donst behave as a universial formatting / mask function.
The function seems to, to_char only dates and currency

I've searched google and orafaq but nothing jumped out.

I know someone on this list has the answer...

Thanks!
bob
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