Test for blank character

My query is how to check for a blank character in a string using the 'substr' function. For example, i use the following statement to read the first 15 characters of the string stored in the variable 'v_line':
imsi_no:=substr(v_line,1,15);
and imsi_no is the variable used to store the 15 characters. Please help in solving the doubt as it is urgent.

also,
you can loop through the string - in case you want to know where blanks are positioned - and use instr
e.g. select instr('Hello World',' ')from dual returns 6
Frank

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How to define a blank character

hi, talents,
now i want define a blank character for flexible character concatenate,
but when i do like this,
c_space type c value ' '. the space is always elimnated by concatenate statement.
i want to use a blank space fexibly, so i do not want to use concatenate ......separated by space,
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Hi,
use a text element or the constants which holds the space in it as a value.
And then use the concatenate statement by using those fields. U will be getting the space in b/w.
Regards,
Naresh.

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I am in the process of developing my first game, my first decent game that is. I understand how to develop the background and tileset for the game, but have yet to figure out an effective way of testing for collisions. As in you try to move the character into a wall, or another object on the level.
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If I divide the level into tiles, it won't be to hard,
but I am thinking I want to have the hero be able to
move all over the place, not just from square to
square.Err...
So if the hero is not on a square, the hero is not on a tile and consequently is not on a visible aspect of the game world?
I suspect that you wanted the hero to be able to move in any direction, not just the standard cardinal directions.
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Edited by: ncsthbell on Nov 2, 2009 8:38 AM

ncsthbell wrote:
Mainframe legacy data has been copied straight from the legacy tables into mirrored tables in Oracle. Not a wise thing to do. Mainframe operating systems typically use EBCDIC and Unix and Windows servers use ASCII. The endian is also different (big endian vs little endian).
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Generating unicode for arabic character similar to Character map in c#

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I need to generate Unicode characters for Arabic character. Similar to character map dialog in windows os.
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in the character map.
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Hi SudheendraRao,
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>> if i give string "القائمة" i am expecting "\u0627\uFEDF\uFED8\uFE8E\uFE8B\uFEE4\uFE94" but i am getting Unicode like this "\u0629\u0645\u0626\u0627\u0642\u0644\u0627".
I am not sure the result of string "القائمة" should be, but if I split the string to one char one by one, I could not get the result which you expected.
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Emails sent post test are blank

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XI testing for two SAP R/3 systems with same system id/logical system

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Hi
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Surely there are only 3 conditions to check?
1. The user exists and has that app
2. The user exists and doesn't have that app
3. The user doesn't exist
You could do this in one sql statement like:
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Hi,
816387 wrote:
... QUERY:- Find all customers who have at most one account at the Perryridge branch.
SOLUTION *1* :-
select customer_name
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That finds customers who have exactly one account at Perryridge.
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Can there be customers who have no accounts at all, at any branch? If so, you'll need to use the customer table in this problem, as well as depositor and account.
>
SOLUTION *2* :-
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from depositor D1
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 D2.account_number=A1.account_number and
 branch_name='Perryridge'
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where unique
..........*^*
ERROR at line 3:
ORA-00936: missing expression
Logic of both solution are correct . But Solution 2 gives error in oracle. I want unique construct to work.Sorry, it doesn't in Oracle. I don't know of anything like that in Oracle.
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