如何使用非默认 NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS 在 Oracle PL/SQL 中有效地将文本转换为数字?

I'm trying to find an efficient, generic way to convert from string to a number in PL/SQL, where the local setting for NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS settings is inpredictable -- and preferable I won't touch it. The input format is the programming standard "123.456789", but with an unknown number of digits on each side of the decimal point.

select to_number('123.456789') from dual;
  -- only works if nls_numeric_characters is '.,'

select to_number('123.456789', '99999.9999999999') from dual;
  -- only works if the number of digits in the format is large enough
  -- but I don't want to guess...

to_number 接受第三个参数，但在这种情况下，您也需要指定第二个参数，并且默认"没有格式规范...

select to_number('123.456789', null, 'nls_numeric_characters=''.,''') from dual;
  -- returns null

select to_number('123.456789', '99999D9999999999', 'nls_numeric_characters=''.,''') from dual;
  -- "works" with the same caveat as (2), so it's rather pointless...

CREATE OR REPLACE
FUNCTION STRING2NUMBER (p_string varchar2) RETURN NUMBER
IS
  v_decimal char;
BEGIN
  SELECT substr(VALUE, 1, 1)
  INTO v_decimal
  FROM NLS_SESSION_PARAMETERS
  WHERE PARAMETER = 'NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS';
  return to_number(replace(p_string, '.', v_decimal));
END;
/

select string2number('123.456789') from dual;

SELECT to_number(:x, 
                 translate(:x, '012345678-+', '999999999SS'), 
                 'nls_numeric_characters=''.,''') 
  FROM dual;