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SQLPlus and Special Characters in Oracle

Hi,

Our Oracle Database is going to go through an update soon that will involve the looking of Special Characters in fields of a table. I am wondering if there is a special way to look for certain special characters. In this case it is a # sign that folks have put in a Field.

My Question is how can I search for the # sign in a Select Statement and how can I correct the Fields to replace the # sign with a - or something, maybe a space?

Thanks
Ben
NSTec
Oct 4 '07 #1
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amitpatel66
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Hi,

Our Oracle Database is going to go through an update soon that will involve the looking of Special Characters in fields of a table. I am wondering if there is a special way to look for certain special characters. In this case it is a # sign that folks have put in a Field.

My Question is how can I search for the # sign in a Select Statement and how can I correct the Fields to replace the # sign with a - or something, maybe a space?

Thanks
Ben
NSTec
Make use of REPLACE function to achieve the functionality!!
Oct 5 '07 #2

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