Trim Whitespaces (New Line and Tab space) in a String in Oracle

Question

I need to trim New Line (Chr(13) and Chr(10) and Tab space from the beginning and end of a String) in an Oracle query. I learnt that there is no easy way to trim multiple charac

Answer 1

If at all anyone is looking to convert data in 1 variable that lies in 2 or 3 different lines like below

'Data1

Data2'

And you want to display data as 'Data1 Data2' then use below

select TRANSLATE ('Data1

Data2', ''||CHR(10), ' ') from dual;

it took me hrs to get the right output. Thanks to me I just saved you 1 or 2 hrs :)