Special characters in a feild in oracle table.
Hi,
I want to find out all the special characters in a particular field say name, how am I to do it.
Can u please help me.
Regards
Sridhar
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 with t as (select 1 as id, 'Fred' as name from dual union all
2 select 2, 'Bob!' from dual union all
3 select 3, 'Jimmy123' from dual union all
4 select 4, '45Tim' from dual union all
5 select 5, 'Ken5@Thomas.' from dual)
6 -- end of test data
7 select id, regexp_replace(name, '[(A-Za-z0-9)]') as special_chrs
8* from t
SQL> /
ID SPECIAL_CHRS
1
2 !
3
4
5 @.
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