Translate and replace

what is the difference between translate and replace.

SQL> -- TRANSLATE replaces by position, the 1st character of the list to match is replaced by the SQL> -- 1st character of the replacement list. The 2nd character with the second, and if there are
SQL> -- characters in the list to match that do not have positional matching in the replacements
SQL> -- list they are dropped.
SQL> select translate('ABCABC','A','1') as str from dual;
STR
1BC1BC
SQL> -- REPLACE replaces the exact string to match with the replacement string
SQL> select replace('ABCABC','AC','1') as str from dual;
STR
ABCABC

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Query to Translate and Replace: Pls Help

I have a table which contains days of the week (in numbers) in a comma separated format. I need to replace the numbers with "Abbreviated Days of the Week"
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1
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WED,FRI
In the above case, 0 is replaced by SUN, 1 by MON and so on...

why not a simple (although scarry looking) nested replace?
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Etbin
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How can I search and replace fonts?

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You noticed the first one yourself: the Found item list seems to randomly jump around the document -- I believe you are correct in your observation it may be due to the object construction order. That tells me, by the way, something about your lot numbers that tou didn't mention: your text is not one continuous long threaded story, but it's all or partially in disconnected etxt frames. The Found list does return everything inside a single story in the correct order, but it goes over each separate story in the order they were constructed.
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Dreamweaver cs3 international edition crashes while "Find and Replace"

When i try to perform Find and Replace in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
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aditional info:
Adobe Dreamwever CS3
international version (translated GUI)
Version 9.0 Build 53
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best wishes..
ozgur z

Mr David Powers thank you for your quick,
sorry to say but
the link did not work for me.
i am so ashamed to use a program that crashes while doing a simple "search and replace" action! which i had paid more than 900$.
and also it is so interesting that adobe has released new version CS4 instead of updating the buggy CS3. so the ppl who bought CS3 are dumped!
here i attach the crash error dump file that Dreamweaver creates in its configuration directory.
http://rapidshare.com/files/230314270/Dreamweaver_crash_log.mdmp
i hope it helps to diagnose and SEARCH and REPLACE the BUG.
best wishes
o.z.
edited by: OzgurZ (inserted the rapidshare link for the dump file)
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Finding and replacing (international??) characters

I'm having trouble finding and replacing characters. Can anyone help me see the wood for the trees?
The characters in question are single quote characters (I asume) which have been entered in a windows box/word program/filemaker progremme or some other. As such, when I open them in a flat file on my Mac I see the following:
�A L O E�
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On my Mac I can weed these out with the following:
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As such, when I open them in a flat file on my Mac I see the following:First you should open the file using the correct character encoding. Since the file originates from a Windows box, the encoding is probably Windows-1252, aka CP1252. You'll find the code for opening and reading here, just change "UTF-8" to "CP1252."
http://javaalmanac.com/egs/java.io/ReadFromUTF8.html
Next, you should not write non-ASCII characters in source code because it is not portable. If the source code is moved from one system to another, like from Mac OS X to Linux, the way the compiler translates bytes to characters may change. Only ASCII is safe, so it is better to use the portable Unicode escapes (\uXXXX) to represent non-ASCII characters in strings.
From Microsoft's own reference, the "smart" single quotes are U+2018 and U+2019: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.mspx
so the code to replace them would be
text = text.replace('\u2018', '\'');
text = text.replace('\u2019', '\'');You would need to do the same for the double quotes, \u201C and \u201D
btw as there's a method for replacing charcters in the String class, you don't need to write a new one

Translate and next day function

hi everybody, i am trying to learn how translate and next_day function works in oracle.
i have the following query
select translate(to_char(sysdate,'yyyy/mm/dd'), 'A0123456789','A') FROM DUAL;
when i execute it, the result is //
my question is why is that, i thought it suppose to be AAAA/AA/AA
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select next_day(to_date('06/23/1998','mm/dd/yyyy'), 'friday') from dual;
when i execute it, it gives me 6/26/98 which is a thursday and not a friday. again why is this?
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Hi,
Whenever you have a question about a function, start by looking at the [SQL Language manual|http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/functions204.htm#sthref2476].
Under "Translate", the very first paragraph looks like it was written in response to your question:
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