How to find out the ASCII Values for Spanish character

Question

Hi,
I had an requirement to store Spanish character and also need to fileter the records based on the Spanish character.
Kindly guide me for below.
To filter the Records which contains spanish characters?
To get the ASCII Values for the particular column?
E.g. we can find out the ASCII value of 'a' by using the syntax select ASCII('a') from dual.
But I want to find the ASCII Values for the particular column value. Ie. name.
E.g., Client name is "Suresh", I want to the ASCII Values for entire name of "Suresh".
Kindly do the needful help / Guidance on this.
Thanks,
Orahar

Answer 1

To expand on what I said in my first post, you want to do something along these lines:
with t (thename) as
  select 'Suresh' from dual
select thename
     , substr(TheName, level, 1)
     , ascii(substr(thename, level))
  from t
connect by level <= length(thename);The output of the above query is:
THENAM S ASCII(SUBSTR(THENAME,LEVEL))
Suresh S                           83
Suresh u                          117
Suresh r                          114
Suresh e                          101
Suresh s                          115
Suresh h                          104
6 rows selected.Note that the WITH statement is only there to simulate a table for this example. With a table, all you do is get rid of the with and substitute the name "t" for the name of your table (also the name of the column to whatever name the column has in your table).
Lastly, I suggest you post your question along with, an example table and the output you'd like to get in the PL/SQL forum. There are people there that will give you all kinds of great ways of solving that problem.
HTH,
John.