On 4/13/07, dd yakkali <dd.yakkali@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Madhu,
thanks for the response, for some reason, it is not working for me. Do you
know what is meant by non printable characters?
what i am looking for is any character outside of ascii value 32 and ascii
value 126
I thought by control they meant that.
Here is what I found on the web
select count(*) from
njcrc.tblprogram where replace(translate(lower(description ),'
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890_-+=()*&^%$#@!~`;:}{][|\/?.,><"'''||chr(
10)||chr( 13)||chr(9 ),'X'),'X' ,'') is not null;
control is not the same as non-printable but not sure where they differ. If you are looking specifically for non-print, there is a [:print:], so the equiv would be: select regexp_replace(string, '[[:print:]]') from dual; --to give only non-print characters. -Madhu S
