What is the method to convert a PL/SQL date to a string?

1 year ago
Liam
1 minute

In PL/SQL, you can use the TO_CHAR function to convert a date into a string. The syntax for the TO_CHAR function is as follows:

TO_CHAR(date_value, format_mask)

date_value is the date to be converted, and format_mask is the string used to indicate the conversion format. Some common date format masks include:
– ‘YYYY-MM-DD’: displaying the date in year-month-day format
– ‘MM/DD/YYYY’: displaying the date in month/day/year format
– ‘DD-MON-YYYY’: displaying the date in day-month-year format
– ‘HH24:MI:SS’: displaying the time in hour:minute:second format
For example, converting a date variable to a string representation.

DECLARE
  date_value DATE := SYSDATE;
  date_string VARCHAR2(20);
BEGIN
  date_string := TO_CHAR(date_value, 'YYYY-MM-DD');
  DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(date_string);
END;

This code converts the current date to a string format of ‘YYYY-MM-DD’ and prints it in the output window.

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