Oracle: Replacing non-numeric chars in a string
You can use REGEXP_REPLACE since Oracle 10: SELECT REGEXP_REPLACE(‘+34 (947) 123 456 ext. 2013’, ‘[^0-9]+’, ”) FROM DUAL This example returns 349471234562013. Alternative syntaxes include: POSIX character classes: ‘[^[:digit:]]+’ Perl-influenced extensions (since Oracle 11): ‘\D+’