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Oracle® Database SQL Reference
10g Release 2 (10.2)

Part Number B14200-01
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NCHR

Syntax

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Purpose

NCHR returns the character having the binary equivalent to number in the national character set. This function is equivalent to using the CHR function with the USING NCHAR_CS clause.

This function takes as an argument a NUMBER value, or any value that can be implicitly converted to NUMBER, and returns a character.


See Also:

CHR

Examples

The following examples return the nchar character 187:

SELECT NCHR(187) FROM DUAL;

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SELECT CHR(187 USING NCHAR_CS) FROM DUAL;

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