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Asked: 2026-05-13T13:45:20+00:00

I’m trying to come up with a search/replace expression that will convert from Oracle

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I’m trying to come up with a search/replace expression that will convert from Oracle style inserts with timestamp fields to insert statements for another database.

Basically, I want to convert strings like:

to_timestamp('13-SEP-09 12.00.00.000000000 PM','DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SS.FF AM')

to just:

'13-SEP-09 12.00.00.000000000 PM'

I’ve tried several expressions in the IDEA’s search/replace box, but I still can’t quite get it. This one:

to_timestamp(.[^,]*,.[^)]*)

replaced with $1 ends up matching the string I want except the close parenthesis, but then only deletes the first part. I end up with:

('13-SEP-09 12.00.00.000000000 PM','DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SS.FF AM')

I really don’t understand what’s happening here.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like you want:

    to_timestamp\(('[^']*')[^)]*\)

    Breaking it down:

    to_timestamp is obvious

    \( matches the opening paren

    ( starts capturing

    '[^']' matches the first quoted string

    ) stops capturing

    [^)]*\) matches the remaining text

    If that’s the whole string you’re matching, and not just part of a larger text, you can use .* instead of [^)]*\) for the last part; you don’t really care what comes after the closing '.

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