I am 95% certain (full confidence requires a doc check) that you can accomplish this with regexp_replace(). On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Bala <oratips@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gurus, > > Oracle 11..2.0.3 on Linux R6 > == > 1) I have a field with a data type of varchar2 that has integers and > non-integer characters. > 2) Example: 214’ or 61+45 or 88/8. > 3) How can i remove the non-integer characters from the table ? > 4) Can a function be written to remove non-integer characters ?, so in the > example it would be 214 or 6145 or 888 > == > > Appreciate any pointers to solve this, thank you in advance. > > Sincerely > > -- > Bala Rao >