Check the column data contains alphanumeric data

Question

I want to retrieve the column data from the table if the column data contains alphanumeric data
Ex: select column1 from table1 where column1 contains alphanumeric data.column1 is declared as varchar2.
Is the any function defined to check for alphanumerics in sql query?
Thanks!!

Answer 1

Like this ?
SQL>
SQL>  WITH Sample_Data AS (SELECT '3874' col FROM DUAL UNION ALL
  2                        SELECT '74' col FROM DUAL UNION ALL
  3                        SELECT '123' col FROM DUAL UNION ALL
  4                        SELECT '22FRE' col FROM DUAL UNION ALL
  5                        SELECT 'ABCD' col FROM DUAL UNION ALL
  6                        SELECT 'AB33FRE' col FROM DUAL
  7                         )
  8   SELECT col from Sample_data
  9    WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(col,'[[:alpha:]]')
10    AND REGEXP_INSTR(col,'[0-9]')>0;
COL
22FRE
AB33FRE
SQL>