Thanks I came up with the following sql that did the trick:
select regexp_substr('field', '[^:]+', 1, level) from dual connect by regexp_substr('field', '[^:]+', 1, level) is not null Atul Vohra -----Original Message----- From: "Doug Blair" [d...@blairing.com] Date: 05/18/2010 09:53 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: spliiting a string in remedy Atul, How about REPLACE('your_field',":"," ") ? ... with a newline between those last two double quotes Doug On May 17, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Atul Vohra wrote: > All, > > I am wondering if there is an oracle sql call that would split a character > field content -ex abc:xyz:def should return > abc > xyz > def > > Could do it in remedy but was looking to get in one call. > > Thanks > Atul > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" Doug -- Doug Blair d...@blairing.com +1 224-558-5462 200 North Arlington Heights Road Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"