Sorry. When you just metioned SQL in your first post, I thought it was short for SQL Server.
I am using Transact-SQL programming functions. The main Transact-SQL commands are the same for most if not all SQL back-ends (e.g. ALTER TABLE, SELECT, INSERT INTO). Functions can be vastly different.
I don't know of an Oracle translation for charindex.
Larry Miller
MCSD
LWMiller3@verizon.netAccumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning. -- Mingjiao