Multiline Data needs to show in seperate records

Question

Dear Friend
I have a data which is stored in a field of a table. That data is multilined data.
I want to use a select statement, which will return all the data in seperate records.
because I may use any individual record from that Multilined data.
Can anyone help me fetch in my required way..................
in the below in bold i am sending the sample data of Multilined data
rgds
Mithun
V.0.1 * 28.01.1999 * PS * init
V.0.2 * 04.02.2000 * PS * changes: follow suggestions made by GL,JR,MSK
V.1.0 * 08.02.2000 * PS * correct some errors, checked DTD with produced output
                    from AE2XML
V.1.1 * 10.02.2000 * PS * Tracking events                    
V.1.2 * 01.03.2000 * PS * Added Sea, Dgs, Eqd
V.1.3 * 22.09.2000 * PS * added freight on shipment level; added optional internal RSI fields
* for carrier: ShortName, Prefix, IsMemberOfIata
V.1.3.1 * 26.09.2000 * PS * added SendersRole (export,import,agent,...)
V.1.3.2 * 26.09.2000 * PS * TDT: Air/Sea optional e.g. for bookings

Answer 1

SQL> drop table t;
Table dropped.
SQL> create table t
  2  (txt varchar2(4000));
Table created.
SQL> insert into t
  2  values('V.0.1 * 28.01.1999 * PS * init)
  3  V.0.2 * 04.02.2000 * PS * changes: follow suggestions made by GL,JR,MSK
  4  V.1.0 * 08.02.2000 * PS * correct some errors, checked DTD with produced output
  5  from AE2XML
  6  V.1.1 * 10.02.2000 * PS * Tracking events
  7  V.1.2 * 01.03.2000 * PS * Added Sea, Dgs, Eqd
  8  V.1.3 * 22.09.2000 * PS * added freight on shipment level; added optional internal RSI fields
  9  * for carrier: ShortName, Prefix, IsMemberOfIata
10  V.1.3.1 * 26.09.2000 * PS * added SendersRole (export,import,agent,...)
11  V.1.3.2 * 26.09.2000 * PS * TDT: Air/Sea optional e.g. for bookings
12  ');
1 row created.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL> create or replace type TStrings as table of varchar2(4000);
  2  /
Type created.
SQL> create or replace function SamplePipe return TStrings pipelined is
  2 
  3   vc1 varchar2(4000);
  4   n number;
  5  begin
  6    for rec in (select txt from t) loop
  7     n := length(rec.txt)-length(replace(rec.txt,chr(10)));
  8     for i in 1..n loop
  9      pipe row(substr(rec.txt||chr(10),instr(rec.txt||chr(10),chr(10),1,i),
10             instr(rec.txt||chr(10),chr(10),1,i+1)-instr(rec.txt||chr(10),chr(10),1,i)));
11     end loop;
12   end loop;
13   return;
14  end;
15  /
Function created.
SQL> show errors
No errors.
SQL> select * from table(samplepipe);
COLUMN_VALUE                                                                   
V.0.2 * 04.02.2000 * PS * changes: follow suggestions made by GL,JR,MSK        
V.1.0 * 08.02.2000 * PS * correct some errors, checked DTD with produced output
from AE2XML                                                                    
V.1.1 * 10.02.2000 * PS * Tracking events                                      
COLUMN_VALUE                                                                   
V.1.2 * 01.03.2000 * PS * Added Sea, Dgs, Eqd                                  
V.1.3 * 22.09.2000 * PS * added freight on shipment level; added optional intern
al RSI fields                                                                  
* for carrier: ShortName, Prefix, IsMemberOfIata                               
COLUMN_VALUE                                                                   
V.1.3.1 * 26.09.2000 * PS * added SendersRole (export,import,agent,...)        
V.1.3.2 * 26.09.2000 * PS * TDT: Air/Sea optional e.g. for bookings            
10 rows selected.
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        jeneesh
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