Search text in Long column

Question

Hi All,
I want to search those views whose text contains a word 'PATIENT'. I queried DBA_VIEWS, but the text column is of Long datatype, so it is not accepting the following query:
select owner, view_name, text from dba_views where text like '%PATIENT%';
Is there any other way out to get such data??
Thanks,
Api

Answer 1

But what about the mviews?? It doesn't work with dbms_metadata.get_ddl..Why not?:
SQL> create materialized view mv_emp
refresh complete on demand
as
select * from emp
Creatematerializedview successfully completed.
SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('MATERIALIZED_VIEW', 'MV_EMP', user) from dual
DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('MATERIALIZED_VIEW','MV_EMP',USER)                       
  CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW "MICHAEL"."MV_EMP" ("EMPNO", "ENAME", "JOB", "MGR", "
HIREDATE", "SAL", "COMM", "DEPTNO")                                            
  ORGANIZATION HEAP PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOG
GING                                                                           
  STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645        
  PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)             
  TABLESPACE "USERS"                                                           
  BUILD IMMEDIATE                                                              
  USING INDEX PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255                               
  STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645        
  PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)             
  TABLESPACE "USERS"                                                           
  REFRESH COMPLETE ON DEMAND                                                   
  WITH PRIMARY KEY USING DEFAULT LOCAL ROLLBACK SEGMENT                        
  USING ENFORCED CONSTRAINTS DISABLE QUERY REWRITE                             
  AS SELECT "EMP"."EMPNO" "EMPNO","EMP"."ENAME" "ENAME","EMP"."JOB" "JOB","EMP".
"MGR" "MGR","EMP"."HIREDATE" "HIREDATE","EMP"."SAL" "SAL","EMP"."COMM" "COMM","E
MP"."DEPTNO" "DEPTNO" FROM "MICHAEL"."EMP" "EMP"                               
1 row selected.