Re: newline character in SQL

Mallah,

The "replace" didn't work. The lines still showup on multiple lines. I like to confirm if Oracle (I am using 8.0.6)
recognizesthe '\n'?  Any other ideas from anyone? Appreciate the help.
 

Regards,
Tarun

-----Original Message-----
From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah [mailto:mallah@trade-india.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 5:04 AM
To: Sethi Tarun-ETS017; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] newline character in SQL




Use replace function as documented in 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=functions-string.html

eg in your case you can do:
Select name,  replace(name, '\n' , '') as straight_name , comments ,
replace(comments, '\n' , '') as straight_comment from table where comment like '%Fine%';


please not that replace function is inbuilt in postgresql 7.3.x , 
i previous versions i am not sure , but there is a work around for older
versions.

Regds
Mallah.


On Friday 21 Mar 2003 8:46 am, Sethi Tarun-ETS017 wrote:
> How can I remove the newline character from the value of a column.
> 
> For Example:
> Select name, comments from table where comment like '%Fine%';
> Results:
> NAME        COMMENTS
> John M.    This was a
>         Fine piece of 
>         work.
> 
> Above, I'd like the Results to appear:
> NAME        COMMENTS
> John M.    This was a Fine piece of work.
> 
> I tried substr, instr, hedged right ... but can't get it to work.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> TS
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