Issue when comparing result of to_char(myDate, 'DAY') to a string

Question

I have been trying to find what the issue might be but I am just out of luck and don\'t understand this problem at all.I have the following code:

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Answer 1

If you want to be really robust about this then you ought to force the NLS setting to English and apply the "fill mode" format model FM for trimming leading and trailing spaces.

If To_Char(DateC,'fmDAY', 'nls_date_language=english') = 'FRIDAY'
Then ...