Oracle® Database SQL Reference 10g Release 1 (10.1) Part Number B10759-01 |
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INITCAP
returns char
, with the first letter of each word in uppercase, all other letters in lowercase. Words are delimited by white space or characters that are not alphanumeric.
char
can be of any of the datatypes CHAR
, VARCHAR2
, NCHAR
, or NVARCHAR2
. The return value is the same datatype as char
.
This function does not support CLOB
data directly. However, CLOB
s can be passed in as arguments through implicit data conversion.
The following example capitalizes each word in the string:
SELECT INITCAP('the soap') "Capitals" FROM DUAL; Capitals --------- The Soap