Finding Text in triggers

Question

Hi All,
I want to list the names os all the triggers stored in database whicg contain a particular word. I tried to use INSTR and Like '%search%' but as the trigger body column is a long type column I can not use these functions on this column. Can any body please help me how to do this.
Thanks in advance
Warm Regards
Vivek Bajaj

Answer 1

The USER_SOURCE solution will only work in version 9. If you are on 8 something, and need to do this as more than a one-shot deal, you can create a procedure similar to this to find trigger with your text.
PROCEDURE find_text_in_trigger (p_str_to_find IN VARCHAR2) IS
DECLARE
CURSOR trig_cur IS
SELECT trigger_name, trigger_boy
FROM user_triggers;
l_trigger VARCHAR2(30);
l_body VARCHAR2(32767);
BEGIN
   OPEN trig_cur;
   LOOP
      FETCH trig_cur INTO l_trigger, l_body;
      EXIT WHEN trig_cur%NOT_FOUND;
      IF INSTR(l_body, p_str_to_find) > 0 THEN
         DBMS_OUTPUT.Put_Line ('String exisits in trigger '||l_trigger);
      END IF;
   END LOOP;
END;This will, of course, bomb if you have triggers bigger than 32K, but if you do you probably have bigger problems anyway.
TTFN
John