Limitations on using SQL/PLSQL Functions in Reports 6i/10g

Hi Gurus..
We have limitation on using TRIM, Regular Expressions, CASE Operator, Sub-query in cursor in Reports 6i/10g..
Could you please let us know all such limitations for Reports 6i/10g. Any reference document will be much more useful..
Any help will be greatly appreciated...
Thank You in Advance..
gt1982

There is no documentation. E.g. the Reports 6i documentation can't say that you cannot use regular expressions, simply because it just didn't exist at the time.
The pl/sql engine in Forms and Reports is always behind on the database. You should put as much code as possible in database procedures and views if you want to make use of new (pl/)sql functionality.

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<Address>
</Address>
</Contact info>
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I would do it from the database, but then again, I am a database / PL/SQL guy.
IMHO the database will deliver you with more options. I don't know about "speed" between the two.

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I know about the drivers, I just need an IDE very similar to PL/SQL developer that will give me an opportunity to create the tables and their relationships and perform other DDL tasks that is why initially i was just wondering whether it is okay to utilize sql*plus for all that...SQLPlus can process any valid sql statement. Actually, it will pass anything that is not a sqlplus command to the database to be processed. The database will process any valid sql statement and pass the result back to the client to do with as the client sees fit - the client being sqlplus in this case.
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Hi,
I did a small project using forms and reports 6i. Now i prepared a repor that will calucalate the sum(expenditure)per report level. Now the problem is i want to print the sum which is in number form , in words. That is if the sum is 50000 then i want to print "fifty thousand". For this conversion from number to figure i wrote a small programme , which successfully compiled and created a function.
Now I want to create a field in the report and in which I want to call this plsql function and perform the number conversion of sum(expenditure)per report field. Please describe in detail how to make reference between these two fields i.e sum(expenditure)per report and field in which I want to run plsql code and thereby converting the sum into figures.
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Hi,
If the amount does not exceed more than 5,373,484 then you can use the following method to print the number in words.
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There's no need to write DB function unless you are sure that the value can exceed 5373484.
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