Re: Wild_Numbers!

From: Dana Stockler <dana.stockler_at_iname.com>
Date: 27 Nov 1998 06:54:14 GMT
Message-ID: <01be19d2$bebbae30$b185a488@ws10>

| I'm currently retraining for Oracle and have managed to bet my Christmas
| turkey (well not quite ) that
| a wildcard exists when conducting a search to specify numerical data ONLY
| ie. to exclude all else. Now
| I sincerely hope someone can back me up here and actually identify this
| legendary wildcard and its operation.

I'm not aware of any such wildcard.

IMHO: Oracle is very weak as regards regular expression pattern matching. I have often needed (wanted?) functionality similar to what you describe.

It just occurred to me that maybe I could write a stored function to implement
some form of RegExpPatMat. If I ever get my head above water here I'll give it a try.

Dana Received on Fri Nov 27 1998 - 00:54:14 CST