Commas in numbers?

Earlier threads allude that this isn't possible.
I've got enrollment figures in the thousands and can't seem to get commas in there without it treating them as strings.
Is that still the case?
Thanks.

Generally, data can be displayed in various ways without affecting the source, thus to answer your question, merely format the number for display purposes only.

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Good Morning,
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My question is, how do I remove the commas within the numbers in the report script? Below is a portion of the report script.
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<LINK (( <DESCENDANTS ("RC_P1301008017","Lev2,Entity") or <DESCENDANTS ("RC_P1301008019","Lev2,Entity") or <DESCENDANTS ("RC_P1301008021","Lev2,Entity")
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http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/esb_tech_ref/rw_supcommas.html
You might also think about SUPALL:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/esb_tech_ref/rw_supall.html
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his has a couple of items in it....
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In Numbers, I formatted a phone number column imported from a Text file, but it put in commas, like the phone is a number: 4157933161 is 4,157,933,161. Can I get rid of those commas?
Find / Replace is your friend.
Find "," Replace by nothing.
Also, I couldn't import a .txt file (a mailing list from Experian) into Numbers. When I did open the file with Numbers, Numbers put it all in 1 cell - yikes. So I had to go back to my old pc, import the .txt file (easily...) and then take that .xls file and load it on my MAC in Numbers - good golly you have got to be kidding. What am I missing. How do I import a .txt file (it actually is comma seperated but marked as an .txt file - MS Excel had no problem)
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He is perfectly right. There is no such feature.
As we may print a given range of pages it's not a true problem.
We may insert temporary page breaks to do the trick.
And of course, if you prefer MS you may stay with it !
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 22 octobre 2008 11:20:29)

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END LOOP;
EXCEPTION
WHEN no_messages THEN NULL;
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/Edited by: BrendanP on 23-Nov-2011 11:36
I did actually test a similar subselect but I used positional parameter-passing there - as you have to in SQL, so updated to do same here.

How to gracefully import CSV files into Numbers.app v3?

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1) how do I get these tables installed on my local stand alone computer and
2) why does this new version of SQLDEVELOPER need them - or to put it in a different way - why is this the first time in 4 years that I need these tables?
3) why wasnt there an appropriate error message or visible warning.
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The code for the function and type were borrowed from "somewhere" 4 years ago - the rest is pretty simple. No changes are necessary for any of this as it works perfectly - it is only presented for further information. Database is 11gR2
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AS
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create or replace
FUNCTION "CONCAT_ALL"(
ctx IN concat_expr)
RETURN VARCHAR2 DETERMINISTIC PARALLEL_ENABLE AGGREGATE USING concat_all_ot
The type:
create or replace
TYPE "CONCAT_ALL_OT" AS OBJECT (
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del VARCHAR2 (4000),
STATIC FUNCTION odciaggregateinitialize (
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RETURN NUMBER,
MEMBER FUNCTION odciaggregateiterate (
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create or replace
TYPE "CONCAT_EXPR" AS OBJECT (
str VARCHAR2 (4000),
del VARCHAR2 (4000),
MAP MEMBER FUNCTION f_map RETURN VARCHAR2);

>
The real answer to my question should have simply been - the concat function is not allowed in 11gR2 - LISTAGG s the appropriate replacement. Seems our server is only 10g and that's why it still works there. My local testbed is 11gR2
>
Those comments are so far off base I can't even imagine how you arrived at those conclusions.
1. You never mentioned a 10g system - you talked about a mainframe
>
This system is up on our mainframe and has run perfectly for several years
>
2. The Oracle concat function is still alive and well in 11g - nothing you posted shows you are using that function
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10592/functions033.htm#i77004
>
Purpose
CONCAT returns char1 concatenated with char2. Both char1 and char2 can be any of the data types CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, CLOB, or NCLOB. The string returned is in the same character set as char1. Its data type depends on the data types of the arguments.
>
3. The CONCAT_ALL function that you posted is YOUR function, not Oracle's. It is a custom aggregate function written using the Data Cartridge extensions. That function will still work in 11g.
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create or replace
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;Your questions were these
>
So my question is -
1) how do I get these tables installed on my local stand alone computer and
2) why does this new version of SQLDEVELOPER need them - or to put it in a different way - why is this the first time in 4 years that I need these tables?
3) why wasnt there an appropriate error message or visible warning.
>
Providing an answer of 'the concat function is not allowed in 11gR2' to those questions would have been absurd! The concat function has NOTHING to do with your missing tables.
I told you the reason your tables are missing. They are only created when you run the script I referred you to. Someone ran them on your current system and created hierarchical profiles that used those tables. You DID NOT run that script on 11g so the tables were not created but you tried to reference the profiles that used them and got the error message about the tables being missing.
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