Problems with Quotes

Hi,

I have a PL/SQL function which breaks up a comma-separated list of values stored in one column, and uses that (along
withother data) to make a new table.
 

My problem is that some of the incoming data is quoted e.g.

"value1, value2, value3"

Meaning that when I split on the commas, I end up with:

"value1
value2
value3"

I've tried using the replace() function to get rid of the ", but I can't figure out how to use it without throwing an
error. I tried
 

replace(col_name, '\"', '')

and several other permutations but to no avail, do I need to use something like an ASCII character code in order to get
ridof a quote?  If so which one, and if not, is there a better solution?
 

Many thanks.

Kieran

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