Showing posts with label Reverse function. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reverse function. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Reverse function in Oracle

The following shows how to use the reverse function to reverse a string or number in Oracle.
SQL> select reverse('string') from dual;
REVERS
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However you may not have the function installed and can use the following procedure:
SQL>
SQL> create or replace procedure reverse(x in varchar2) as
2 a char(1);
3 i number;
4 begin
5 for i in 1..length(x) loop
6 select substr(x,length(x)-i+1,1) into c from dual;
7 dbms_output.put(a);
8 end loop;
9 dbms_output.put_line(' ');
10 end;
11 /


Procedure created.

SQL> set serverout on
SQL> exec reverse('Oracle')
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SQL> exec reverse('string')
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PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.