Commas in string fields

Please can someone suggest to me how I read in a String from the
          previous page that contains a comma.
          I have a drop down list on one page that includes town names such as
          "Colchester, Essex". On the next page I do
          request.getParameter("town") but it only ever returns the String as
          far as the comma e.g. Colchester,. How do I stop the comma acting as
          a delimiter?
          Sorry for being vague.
          Thanks, Love Emma

use request.getParameterValues()
          this will return u a string array of all the comma separated values
          YourJumbly <[email protected]> wrote in message
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          > Please can someone suggest to me how I read in a String from the
          > previous page that contains a comma.
          >
          >
          > I have a drop down list on one page that includes town names such as
          > "Colchester, Essex". On the next page I do
          > request.getParameter("town") but it only ever returns the String as
          > far as the comma e.g. Colchester,. How do I stop the comma acting as
          > a delimiter?
          >
          >
          >
          > Sorry for being vague.
          >
          >
          > Thanks, Love Emma

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This should do the trick for you...
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b) there is no need for CASE in RULES clause
c) NVL can be applies on measures level
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22 /
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Hi,
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user548963 wrote:
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How to remove the comma from string

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I Have string like below :
String some1="123,44.22";
I want to remove comma from string and final output should be 12244.22.
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2 /
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7369 SMITH    CLERK       7902 17-DEC-80    800             20
7788 SCOTT    ANALYST     7566 09-DEC-82   3000             20
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4          (select upper(column_value) from table(tabstr(:s)));
5 end;
6 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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7369 SMITH    CLERK       7902 17-DEC-80    800             20
7788 SCOTT    ANALYST     7566 09-DEC-82   3000             20
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Does anyone know what to do to allow these fields to print in completion?
Database connection is ODBC RDO.
regards
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Can you query the database directly with another query tool, eg SQL Server Management Studion or SQL developer/Toad for Oracle.
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