Diane,
If you rely on Oracle to do the checking, it will
be much faster.
Jared
create or replace function is_number( chk_data_in varchar2 )
return boolean
is
dummy number(38,4);
begin
dummy := to_number(chk_data_in);
return true;
exception
when value_error then
return false;
when others then
raise;
end;
/
show errors function is_number
declare
v_test varchar2(10) := '1E';
begin
if is_number(v_test) then
dbms_output.put_line(v_test || ' is a number');
else
dbms_output.put_line(v_test || ' is NOT a number');
end if;
end;
/
On Friday 18 May 2001 11:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You could always write your own function. Or you could do something using
> the replace() function, maybe like this (again, untested):
>
> select circ_id, circ_num from circuit
> where replace(circ_num,
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890',
> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ') is not null;
>
> Depending on your data, you may need to check for punctuation and special
> characters as well.
>
> HTH,
>
> Diana Duncan
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> Glenn Travis
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> I have a table with a column of varchar2(50) datatype. We are building a
> new table and the values in this column should all be numbers. I need to
> query the table to find all rows which have a value in this column which is
> not a valid number.
>
> Table:
> circuit (circ_id (primary_key) number, circ_num varchar2(50))
>
> Example: find all values in circ_num which are not numbers.
> how do I do something like 'select circ_id, circ_num from circuit where
> circ_num not valid to_number(circ_num)'
>
> Is there a function to check this?
>
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