Split Parameter

Question

hi all,
i m passing a parameter to function. this parameter can be a word or series of words like 'abc' or 'abc def ..'
how i split this parameter string into each separate word in function,
means if it is find a 'space' in sentence, it should split from that location? i m using 9i db or 10g db.
thanks

Answer 1

And in 9i
SQL> with t as (
  select 'abc def ghi' txt from dual
select txt, extractvalue(column_value, 'e/text()') txt2
   from t, table(xmlsequence(xmltype( '<e><e>' || replace(txt, ' ', '</e><e>') || '</e></e>').extract('e/e')))
TXT         TXT2                         
abc def ghi abc                          
abc def ghi def                          
abc def ghi ghi                          
3 rows selected.