Search a varchar2 field for ASCII 27

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August 19th, 2004, 04:23 AM

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Search a varchar2 field for ASCII 27

I have to determine if field if any of the characters in a varchar2(30) is ASCII 27. Is there a way to do this with a SQL select statement?

I could write a PL/SQL function to loop and test by substr() each character but that seems to be the hard way...

Thanks for any help

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August 19th, 2004, 09:05 AM

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select * from table
where col like '%' || chr(27) || '%'

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August 19th, 2004, 07:57 PM

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Works great, thank you

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