How to provide space withing Characters

Question

We area using Reports 6i and while runing we are looking for space withing the value for example in running time reports provide the output as
SHISHU PAUL
but we like output as
S H I S H U P A U L
Thanks
Shishu Paul

Answer 1

Hello Shishu,
If i understood you right. You have an output txt, example: SHISHU PAUL
But you want to display it in your report as: S H I S H U P A U L
If so, try this:
function CF_spaceFormula return CHAR is
start_num  number := 1;
txt_with_space varchar(1000) := :<your_txt_column_nm>;
begin
   for i in 1..length(:<your_txt_column_nm>) loop
          txt_with_space := substr(txt_with_space, 1, start_num)||' '||substr(txt_with_space, start_num+1,(length(txt_with_space)- start_num+1));
          start_num := start_num + 2;
   end loop;
   return(txt_with_space);
end;-Marilyn