Need Help in Find and Replace

Question

Sorry Gurus..
Made a mistake in my post and i removed that
Edited by: MuraliDharan V on May 27, 2009 1:37 AM

Answer 1

Something like this:
with my_tab as (select '|1.23|1.56|1.4|' col1 from dual union all
                select '1.56|1.4' col1 from dual union all
                select '1.2' col1 from dual)
-- end of mimicking your data: Use SQL below!
select col1||'='||sum(cast(tx.column_value.extract('//text()') as varchar2(100))) result
from   my_tab,
       table(xmlsequence(xmltype('<x><x>'||replace(rtrim(ltrim(col1, '|'), '|'),'|','</x><x>')||'</x></x>').extract('//x/*'))) tx
group by col1;
RESULT                                                 
|1.23|1.56|1.4|=4.19                                   
1.2=1.2                                                
1.56|1.4=2.96  This uses XML functions to split the string onto different rows, and then sums the result up.
Edited by: Boneist on 27-May-2009 09:42
Gah! Oh well, was an interesting little side diversion...