Need a Blank line between Text field data

Question

hello friends, Happy New Year..
i have a varchar2(200) size field and i am Entreing data into it like this;
Chairman  Name1
Member    Name2
Member    Name3
Member    Name4
Member    Name5
Member    Name6
Secretary Name7what to do is, insert an a blank line between all lines of this text field. The output to like this ;
Chairman  Name1
Member    Name2
Member    Name3
Member    Name4
Member    Name5
Member    Name6
Secretary Name7The names are separated by pressing Enterkey (i dont know its equivalent chr(10) or chr(13).
TYVM.

Answer 1

You can also try the below :
Assumption here is that you will always have data in that column in 7 lines.
rec.rowno in (2,4,6,8,10,12,14) is included to create empty row in between each row.
create table test(a varchar2(200));
insert into test values('Chairman  Name1
Member    Name2
Member    Name3
Member    Name4
Member    Name5
Member    Name6
Secretary Name7');
commit;
select
       case
         when rec.rowno = 1 then
               substr(a,1,instr(a,chr(10),1,1) - 1)
         when rec.rowno in (2,4,6,8,10,12,14) then
              null
         when rec.rowno = 3 then
               substr(a,(instr(a,chr(10),1,1)+1),instr(a,chr(10),1,2))  
         when rec.rowno = 5 then
               substr(a,(instr(a,chr(10),1,2)+1),instr(a,chr(10),1,3))                          
         when rec.rowno = 7 then
               substr(a,(instr(a,chr(10),1,3)+1),instr(a,chr(10),1,4))              
         when rec.rowno = 9 then
               substr(a,(instr(a,chr(10),1,4)+1),instr(a,chr(10),1,5))
         when rec.rowno = 11 then
               substr(a,(instr(a,chr(10),1,5)+1),instr(a,chr(10),1,6))
         when rec.rowno = 13 then
               substr(a,(instr(a,chr(10),1,6)+1))                                            
       end name1,
       null signature,
       null "DATE"
  from test, (select rownum rowno from dual connect by level <= 14) rec;Edited by: neel_s on Dec 31, 2009 1:07 PM