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Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
10g Release 2 (10.2)

Part Number B14346-01
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REMLINES

The REMLINES function removes one or more lines from a multiline TEXT expression and returns the value that remains.

Return Value

TEXT or NTEXT

Syntax

REMLINES(text-expression start [length])

Arguments

text-expression

A multiline text expression from whose values REMLINES removes one or more lines. When you specify a TEXT expression, the return value is TEXT. When you specify an NTEXT expression, the return value is NTEXT.

start

An INTEGER that represents the line number at which to begin removing lines. The position of the first line in text-expression is 1.

length

An INTEGER that represents the number of lines to be extracted. When you do not specify length, only the line at start is removed.

Examples

Example 20-20 Removing Text Lines

This example shows how to remove the second line from a multiline text value in a variable called mktglist with the following values.

Salespeople
Products
Services

The statement

SHOW REMLINES(mktglist, 2)

produces the following output.

Salespeople
Services