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 Post subject: HOL function to convert string to integer
PostPosted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:24 am 
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Hi,

I have a varchar field in DB , which is use to store a series number which has the fromat "XYZ01" , and my requirement is to fetch the largest number of this field. I use "select max(substring(vt.voucherNumber,4)) ....." to do this. but its not retrieve max value . And this query is not getting executed after i modified the query as "select max(to_number(substring(vt.voucherNumber,4)))....."

please help !

Ajil


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