Oracle PL/SQL : remove “space characters” from a string

Question

In my Oracle 10g database I would like to remove \"space characters\" (spaces, tabs, carriage returns...) from the values of a table field.

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Answer 1

I'd go for regexp_replace, although I'm not 100% sure this is usable in PL/SQL

my_value := regexp_replace(my_value, '[[:space:]]*','');