Non-numeric character error

This is my error:
javax.servlet.ServletException: ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
This is my code:
ResultSet myRs = myStmt.executeQuery("select count(*) dexCount from cs_dexia where userid = '" + vUserid + "'");
          int vCount = 0;
               while(myRs.next()){
                    vCount = myRs.getInt("dexCount");
          out.println(vCount);
               if(vCount > 0)
               response.sendRedirect("swapform.jsp");
What have I done wrong?

I have changed that and am now getting:
javax.servlet.ServletException: ORA-00904: invalid column name
the query runs in my sql tool no problem, could it be something to do with the alias?

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Sqlldr with error: non-numeric character was found when numeric number

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hello
pls use to_date
If your session is set to default date format of DD-MON-YY, execute the following and you will receive the error message:
SQL> select to_date('20-JAN-2010', 'DD-MM-YYYY') from dual;
ERROR:
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
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2 /
TO_DATE
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OR
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2 /
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hello
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2 /
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OR
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2 /
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regards

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but later i changed to
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FROM TABLE_A
which did the trick for me and i dint get any error.
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Documenting this for others.

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CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE T05_ins_f (InpJaar in number, InpMaand in number) IS
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Message was edited by:
user565199

I've fit in the to_date format. but now he say's not a valid month. What i do is the following.
InpMaand and InpJaar are both giving in by the user, like 2 and 2007
after the to_date function, this must be the result: 01-2-2007
otherwise: how to use the variable(InpMaand and InpJaar ) in the to_date function
Message was edited by:
user565199

Returning Non-Numeric character

Hi All,
Im using Oracle 11gR2. Following is my sample data and i want to search the string having non-numeric characters in it.
with t as
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union
select ' 123' val from dual
union
select '1123' val from dual
union
select 'A123' val from dual
union
select 'x 123' val from dual
union
select '#123' val from dual
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Thanks,
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Vivek wrote:
Query works perfectly for given result set but would break if another string, say '123@', with a special character comes. So is there any format specifier (as we have [:alpha:], [:digit:]) to directly identify non-numeric character including space from a string? If no what is the work round for it?What is your expected output?
All the strings which contains anything other than digits? You could use TRANSALTE
select val from t
where translate(val,'a0123456789','a') is not null;
--"Add space also if you want to exclude space
select val from t
where translate(val,'a 0123456789','a') is not null;
{code}
You could use REGEXP_LIKE or REGEXP_REPLACE, but regexp functions are more CPU consuming..
{code}
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where not regexp_like(val,'^0-9+$');
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Edited by: jeneesh on Apr 2, 2013 2:16 PM

Non-numeric character was found

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FROM testdata t1
WHERE (to_date(t1.col11,'DD-MM-RR') < '1-MAY-2012' OR to_date(t1.col11,'DD-MM-RR') > '31-MAY-2012')
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Hi,
user7351276 wrote:
SELECT nvl(t1.col11,0) --into DATA
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WHERE (to_date(t1.col11,'DD-MM-RR') < '1-MAY-2012' OR to_date(t1.col11,'DD-MM-RR') > '31-MAY-2012')
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But when I run it as a block(anonymous block) it runs fine. There are no null values in the table but may the returned value may be null which am trying to replace with NVL but then too am getting this error.It looks like you should be getting a different error, due tounmatched single-quotes.
Did this site garble your code? Try again. \ tags often help. If you can't get the site to post exactly what you mean, then explain what you meant to post.
Any suggestions?Don't compare a DATE (such as the value returned by TO_DATE) to a VARCHAR2 (such as the literal '31-MAY-2012'). Compare DATEs to other DATEs.
You can use TO_DATE, like this:WHERE     TO_DATE (t1.col1, 'DD-MM-RR')     < TO_DATE ('01-MON-2012', 'DD-MON-YYYY')
or a DATE literal, likE this:WHERE     TO_DATE (t1.col1, 'DD-MM-RR')     < DATE '2012-05-01'
What you posted is definitely a mistake, but I can't tell if it's what's causing the error you mentioned or not.
Whenever you have a question, post a copmplete test script, including CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements for some sample data, that people can run to re-create the problem and test their ideas. Post the results you want from the given data, and explain how you get those results from that data.
As Hoek said, read the forum FAQ {message:id=9360002}

How to use expression script to trip off all trailing non-numeric character

Hi,
I used JDev11.1.1.2.
Now a field value like “7.5.3.10BQF”, “7.8.2.XFP”, and another dynamic LOV depends on this value to filter, so we want to trip off all trailing non-numeric characters (including whitespace and periods), for example to “7.5.3.10BQF”, we will filter LOV using "%7.5.3.10%",for "7.8.2.XFP", we will filter LOV using "%7.8.2%".
But I don't know how to write groovy expression to implement this function.
Any advice will be great help.
thanks,
zeroxin

Hi,
The third syntax you used is correct i.e.
DW_CRF.PKG_LPS_CRF_LOAD_TRANS.sp_load_target(''LOAD_CRF'', ''LOAD_LOAN_TRAN'', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, NULL);
Alternatively you can use
DW_CRF.PKG_LPS_CRF_LOAD_TRANS.sp_load_target(''LOAD_CRF'', ''LOAD_LOAN_TRAN'', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, '''');
all the other calls give syntax errors that are expected. The third call is giving an application error which you will need to look into (maybe starting at "DW_CRF.PKG_LPS_CRF_LOAD_TRANS", line 958). One thing that may help clarify things is if you were to switch to naming your parameters e.g. target_name=>''LOAD_CRF'' since that helps clarify exactly what parameter is called with which value.
Hope this helps,
Ravi.

Find a non-numeric character in a string

I have a 3 strings (1) 'AB99CDEFGH0012%' (2) 'ABCDEFGH' (3) 'ABCD11'
how do i find out a that string has non numeric characters
Thanks

SELECT TO_NUMBER(:String) FROM DUAL;
is a quick way to find out :)
A good method would be.....
SELECT 1 FROM DUAL WHERE TRANSLATE(:String, 1234567890, '-') IS NOT NULL;
The statement will filter out ALL numbers, leaving behind any characters, A, B, @, ~, etc...

Non-numeric character in a directory or speed dial number

I'm using an SPA504G to connect directly to my VOIP 'virtual PBX' service provided by voipfone.co.uk. Each virtual extension is of the form 12345678*200 or 12345678*201 etc, but I can't get the phone to dial these numbers, presumably because of the '*' character. Is there any way I can force it to dial these types of numbers?

Hi Nagarajan,
You could use Unicode character blocks or simply craft a regular expression that contains all the characters you need. The latter is easy to understand and gives you full control over which characters you want to allow. E.g. I assume you might want something like this:
if(!"This is a proper input string".matches("[\\s\\w\\p{Punct}]+")) {
// Issue error message and re-get input string
The String method matches() takes a regular expression as input parameter. If you haven't dealt with regular expressions before, check out the Java API help for class java.util.regex.Pattern. Here's a short breakdown of the pattern I used:
<ol>
<li>The square brackets [] enclose a list of allowed characters; here you can explicitly list all allowed characters.</li>
<li>You can specify ranges like a-z as a character class, list individual characters like ;:| or utilize predefined character classes (\s for any whitespace character, \w for all letters a-z and A-Z, underscore and 0-9 and the posix class \p for a list of punctuation symbols). For a complete list check Java API help on java.util.regex.Pattern.
<li>The + at the end indicates that the characters listed can occur once or more.</li>
</ol>
There's other ways to achieve what you want, but I think this might be an easy way to start with.
Cheers, harald

ORA-1858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected

Hi, I have the Function below to do an insert or update depending on situation but I get an exception each time I run my code can anyone please help me find the error in this??
FUNCTION exceptionlog_insert_update_fn (
v_currentmethod IN VARCHAR,
v_customerrormessage IN VARCHAR,
d_datelogged IN DATE,
v_helplink IN VARCHAR,
v_http_costcenter IN VARCHAR,
v_http_email IN VARCHAR,
v_http_host IN VARCHAR,
v_http_sm_authentic IN VARCHAR,
v_http_sm_authorized IN VARCHAR,
v_http_sm_sdomain IN VARCHAR,
v_http_standardid IN VARCHAR,
v_http_user_agent IN VARCHAR,
v_innerexception IN VARCHAR,
n_logstatus IN NUMBER,
v_exceptionmessage IN VARCHAR,
v_pagepath IN VARCHAR,
v_referrer IN VARCHAR,
v_exceptionsource IN VARCHAR,
v_stacktrace IN VARCHAR,
v_squery IN VARCHAR
RETURN NUMBER
IS
existingexceptionlog NUMBER;
n_rowcount NUMBER;
BEGIN
SELECT exceptionlogid
INTO existingexceptionlog
FROM admin_exceptionlog
WHERE pagepath = v_pagepath
AND exceptionmessage = v_exceptionmessage
AND referrer = v_referrer
AND customerrormessage = v_customerrormessage;
IF existingexceptionlog > 0
THEN
UPDATE admin_exceptionlog
SET occurrences = 1
--datelastmodified = SYSDATE
WHERE exceptionlogid = existingexceptionlog;
n_rowcount := SQL%ROWCOUNT;
IF n_rowcount > 0
THEN
-- An Update occured RETURN O indicating this
RETURN 0;
END IF;
ELSE
----- If It does not already exist in the DB, Do an INSERT
-- RETRIEVE THE ID INFORMATION FIRST
INSERT INTO admin_exceptionlog
(exceptionlogid, currentmethod,
customerrormessage, datelogged, helplink,
http_costcenter, http_email, http_host,
http_sm_authentic, http_sm_authorized,
http_sm_sdomain, http_standardid,
http_user_agent, innerexception, logstatus,
exceptionmessage, pagepath, referrer,
exceptionsource, stacktrace, squery, occurrences,
datelastmodified
VALUES (admin_exceptionlogid_seq.NEXTVAL, v_currentmethod,
v_customerrormessage, d_datelogged, v_helplink,
v_http_costcenter, v_http_email, v_http_host,
v_http_sm_authentic, v_http_sm_authorized,
v_http_sm_sdomain, v_http_standardid,
v_http_user_agent, v_innerexception, n_logstatus,
v_exceptionmessage, v_pagepath, v_referrer,
v_exceptionsource, v_stacktrace, v_squery, 1,
SYSDATE
n_rowcount := SQL%ROWCOUNT;
IF n_rowcount > 0
THEN
-- An Update occured RETURN O indicating this
RETURN 0;
END IF;
END IF;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS
THEN
RETURN 1;
END exceptionlog_insert_update_fn;

I do not know how to use MERGE and did not find much information on it. But I looked into modifying it and once again, it compiles in this case but when I run it using the debugger, no code is inserted into the table at all. And it exits with a row number = 0 at line
RETURN L_rowcount;
Is there something about running procedures on Oracle that I seem to be missing here please??? I went ahead and included information on my table as well.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION FN_INSERT_UPDATE_EXCEPTIONLOG
V_HELPLINK IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.HELPLINK%TYPE,
V_HTTP_EMAIL IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.HTTP_EMAIL%TYPE,
V_HTTP_HOST IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.HTTP_HOST%TYPE,
V_HTTP_SM_AUTHENTIC IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.HTTP_SM_AUTHENTIC%TYPE,
V_HTTP_COSTCENTER IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.HTTP_COSTCENTER%TYPE,
V_HTTP_SM_SDOMAIN IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.HTTP_SM_SDOMAIN%TYPE,
V_CUSTOMERRORMESSAGE IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.CUSTOMERRORMESSAGE%TYPE,
V_CURRENTMETHOD IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.CURRENTMETHOD%TYPE,
V_HTTP_SM_AUTHORIZED IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.HTTP_SM_AUTHORIZED%TYPE,
V_HTTP_STANDARDID IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.HTTP_STANDARDID%TYPE,
V_INNEREXCEPTION IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.INNEREXCEPTION%TYPE,
V_EXCEPTIONMESSAGE IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.EXCEPTIONMESSAGE%TYPE,
V_LOGSTATUS IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.LOGSTATUS%TYPE,
V_PAGEPATH IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.PAGEPATH%TYPE,
V_REFERRER IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.REFERRER%TYPE,
V_EXCEPTIONSOURCE IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.EXCEPTIONSOURCE%TYPE,
V_STACKTRACE IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.STACKTRACE%TYPE,
V_TARGETSITE IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.TARGETSITE%TYPE,
V_SQUERY IN ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG.SQUERY%TYPE
) RETURN NUMBER AS
L_datevariable Date :=Sysdate;
L_exceptionlogid integer :=0;
L_rowcount number;
BEGIN
-- Detect any existing entries with the unique
-- combination of columns as in this constraint:
-- constraint WORKER_T_UK2
-- unique (
-- CUSTOMERRORMESSAGE,
-- LOGSTATUS,
-- PAGEPATH )
begin
select ExceptionLogID
into L_exceptionlogid
from ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG AE
where AE.CUSTOMERRORMESSAGE = V_CUSTOMERRORMESSAGE
AND AE.LOGSTATUS = V_LOGSTATUS
AND AE.PAGEPATH = V_PAGEPATH;
exception
when NO_DATA_FOUND then
L_exceptionlogid := 0; -- Is this really needed?
when OTHERS then
raise_application_error(-20003, SQLERRM||
' on select WORKER_T_T'||
' in filename insert_with_plsql_detection_for_update.sql');
end;
-- Conditionally insert the row
if L_exceptionlogid is NULL then
-- Now, let's get the next id sequence
-- we can finally insert a row!
begin
insert into ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG (
CURRENTMETHOD,
CUSTOMERRORMESSAGE,
DATELOGGED,
HELPLINK,
HTTP_COSTCENTER,
HTTP_EMAIL,
HTTP_HOST,
HTTP_SM_AUTHENTIC,
HTTP_SM_AUTHORIZED,
HTTP_SM_SDOMAIN,
HTTP_STANDARDID,
INNEREXCEPTION,
LOGSTATUS,
EXCEPTIONMESSAGE,
PAGEPATH,
REFERRER,
EXCEPTIONSOURCE,
STACKTRACE,
TARGETSITE,
SQUERY,
OCCURRENCES)
values (
V_CURRENTMETHOD,
V_CUSTOMERRORMESSAGE,
L_datevariable,
V_HELPLINK,
V_HTTP_COSTCENTER,
V_HTTP_EMAIL,
V_HTTP_HOST,
V_HTTP_SM_AUTHENTIC,
V_HTTP_SM_AUTHORIZED,
V_HTTP_SM_SDOMAIN,
V_HTTP_STANDARDID,
V_INNEREXCEPTION,
V_LOGSTATUS,
V_EXCEPTIONMESSAGE,
V_PAGEPATH,
V_REFERRER,
V_EXCEPTIONSOURCE,
V_STACKTRACE,
V_TARGETSITE,
V_SQUERY, 1
L_rowcount := sql%rowcount;
exception
when OTHERS then
raise_application_error(-20006, SQLERRM||
' on insert WORKER_T'||
' in filename insert_with_plsql_detection_for_update.sql');
end;
else
begin
update ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG AE
set AE.DATELOGGED = Sysdate
, AE.OCCURRENCES = AE.OCCURRENCES + 1
where AE.EXCEPTIONLOGID = L_exceptionlogid;
L_rowcount := sql%rowcount;
exception
when OTHERS then
raise_application_error(-20007, SQLERRM||
' on update WORKER_T'||
' in filename insert_with_plsql_detection_for_update.sql');
end;
end if;
RETURN L_rowcount;
END FN_INSERT_UPDATE_EXCEPTIONLOG;
CREATE TABLE "SYSTEM"."ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG"
(     "EXCEPTIONLOGID" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,
     "CURRENTMETHOD" VARCHAR2(400 BYTE),
     "CUSTOMERRORMESSAGE" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "DATELOGGED" DATE,
     "HELPLINK" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "HTTP_COSTCENTER" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "HTTP_EMAIL" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "HTTP_HOST" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "HTTP_SM_AUTHENTIC" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "HTTP_SM_AUTHORIZED" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "HTTP_SM_SDOMAIN" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "HTTP_STANDARDID" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "INNEREXCEPTION" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "LOGSTATUS" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,
     "EXCEPTIONMESSAGE" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "PAGEPATH" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "REFERRER" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "EXCEPTIONSOURCE" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "STACKTRACE" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "TARGETSITE" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "SQUERY" VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),
     "OCCURRENCES" NUMBER,
     CONSTRAINT "ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("EXCEPTIONLOGID")
USING INDEX PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 COMPUTE STATISTICS
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "SYSTEM" ENABLE
) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "SYSTEM" ;
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER "SYSTEM"."ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG_TRG"
BEFORE INSERT ON ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG_EXCEPTIONLOGID_SEQ.nextVal INTO :new.EXCEPTIONLOGID FROm Dual;
END;
ALTER TRIGGER "SYSTEM"."ADMIN_EXCEPTIONLOG_TRG" ENABLE;

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