How to search new line char in oracle table?
Depending on the platform, a newline will generally either be a CHR(10)
(Unix) or a CHR(13)
followed by a CHR(10)
(Windows). There are other options for other more esoteric platforms, but 99.999% of the time, it will be one of these two.
You can search the data in a column looking for one or both characters
SELECT instr( column_name, CHR(10) ) position_of_first_lf,
instr( column_name, CHR(13) || CHR(10) ) position_of_first_cr_lf
FROM table_name
WHERE instr( column_name, CHR(10) ) > 0
Using the CHR function to look for the ASCII value:
select *
from your_table
where instr(your_text_col, chr(10)) > 0;
If you want to search for carriage returns, that would be chr(13).
You can write something like:
SELECT id
FROM table_name
WHERE field_name LIKE '%'||CHR(10)||'%'
;
(||
is the concatenation operator; CHR(10)
is the tenth ASCII character, i.e. a newline.)