How to check escape characters

Question

Hi,
I have multiple rows in table data which contain charcters like (enclosed in []) [' &] etc which i want to insert in another table but as I insert the rows with above data (for eg. &) it prompts me for input as & is input charcter.. How can i find such rows with all such characters in table with say 50k records..? any generalized script for that..?
Thx,
JP

Answer 1

i want to insert in another table but as I insert the rows with above data (for eg. &) it
prompts me for input as & is input charcterI have to say that I don't understand your problem. What are your insert statement ?
It work fine for me :
  1  create table ch
  2  as select '['']' col from dual
  3  union all
  4  select '['''||chr(38)||']' from dual
  5  union all
  6* select '['''||chr(92)||']' from dual
SQL> /
Table created.
SQL> select * from ch;
COL
SQL> create table ch2 (col varchar2(10));
Table created.
SQL> insert into ch2 select col from ch;
3 rows created.
SQL> select * from ch2;
COL
SQL> Nicolas.