Trim Function on Oracle 8i and 7

Hello
I Wrote some Stored Procedures using TRIM Funktion on Release 8.1.7. No i have to use this procedures also against an Oracle 7 instance, but it seams that the TRIMfunction isn't working in relase 7. what's the best way to get it up ?
Thanx in adance

TRIM is a newish function. In Oracle 7 we just had RTRIM (i.e. TRAILING) and LTRIM (i.e. LEADING). To get the effect of BOTH you need to do RTRIM(LTRIM (yr_col)).
Cheers, APC
P.S.
what's the best way to get it up ? www.naughtynurses.com ;)

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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DSNT408I SQLCODE = -440, ERROR: NO FUNCTION BY THE NAME TRIM HAVING COMPATIBLE ARGUMENTS WAS FOUND IN THE CURRENT PATH DSNT418I SQLSTATE = 42884 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE DSNT415I SQLERRP = DSNXORFN SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR DSNT416I SQLERRD = -100 0 0 -1 0 0 SQL DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION DSNT416I SQLERRD = X'FFFFFF
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I have control file like below and would like to know is there a better way to declare trim function at the top level instead of specifying at field level. I want to remove leading or trailing spaces for the field.
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ORD_NO POSITION(1:15) "TRIM(:ORD_NO)",
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That's right. if I have 5 to 10 varchar2 columns I have to mention at the field level. Just like PRESERVE BLANKS or TRAILING NULLCOLS at the top level, I thought is there a way to trim all fields at the top level. I will continue to use at the field level. Thanks!http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14215/ldr_field_list.htm#i1007768
If you specify them as varchar2's the trailing blanks will be trimmed.
Also ... to remove the leading blanks.
Optional Enclosure Delimiters
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BANNER
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
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a character string whose length is exactly one, or.
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If trimType is TRAILING, the result will be the trimSource value with all trailing occurrences of trimChar removed.
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About using TRIM function...

//I'm posting this after whole search of past discussion as everybody wants to do so. :-)
Hi,
I want to trim out white spaces from colums in my table when select executes.
I've read about TRIM function, but it does not as documented I think.
See below my pseudo-code from trimming.
SELECT trim (' ' from col1) | | col2, FROM TH_ABLICEN WHERE..blah..blah..This SQL query return me "ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis".
I don't know how can this returns...
TRIM function works only when its parameter is a constant and fails always when columns were injected as a parameter.
This situation is very obscure to me and make me wondering ORACLE's intention for this kind of inconvenience.
And I've tried replace (col1, ' ', '') only to fail.
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1. How can use trim function?
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Adinath Kamode ([email protected]):
Hello,
Your query is correct. I tried it with 8.1.6 sql version. I modified it as follows.
select trim(' ' FROM ENAME)| |JOB FROM EMP;
about syntax you can specify column name in trim.
hope reply from you.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
As mentioned in my first posting, it returns "ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis" error.
Anyway thanks for your concern.
Regards,
Ryan
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Kodo knows the type of classfields (in this case string) and shouldn't
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which is how a transparent persistent layer, um, should be , um , I mean
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Marc Prud'hommeaux wrote:
Stefan-
Couldn't you just do something like:
public Collection getAccounts (String bankCode)
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if (bankCode == null || bankCode.length () == 0)
filter = "(bankCode == null || bankCode == "")";
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filter = "bankCode == "" + bankCode + """;
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If I understand the problem correctly, this should work for all the
databases.
In article <[email protected]>, Stefan wrote:
What operations are you performing to cause this SQL to be issued? You
say you are having trouble removing objects, but this is clearly not a
DELETE statement. Is this the SQL that is issued when looking up
objects by identity?I'm not removing objects, I was removing just quotes from parameters ;-)
A string column... is it also represented as a string field in your class?Yeah ... just to give you an impression of the code:
First we have a class, representing a bank account:
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Note, that in nearly all cases bankCode will be a number or null.
I have a second class "AccountMgr", which does all of the persistant stuff
(seaching, making persistent etc.)
This class has two methods, one versatile (protected) to retrieve accounts
by a given filterString and one who just returns accounts by bankCode,
building the expected filterstring. Here is my current working version:
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if (bankCode!=null) {
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filter += "myAccountMgr==_accMgr";
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query.declareParameters("AccountMgr _accMgr");
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This is because otherwise a filter like "bankCode=1234" will be translated
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[...] executing statement <4239745>: (SELECT [...] FROM JDO_ACCOUNT t0
WHERE t0.BANKCODE = ? : [reused=1;params={(BigDecimal) 1234}]
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