check if clob contains string oracle

You can use DBMS_LOB.INSTR( clob_value, pattern [, offset [, occurrence]] ):

SELECT *
FROM   your_table
WHERE  DBMS_LOB.INSTR( clob_column, 'string to match' ) > 0;

or

SELECT *
FROM   your_table
WHERE  clob_column LIKE '%string to match%';

Base on MT0's answer. I test which way is efficient.

The CLOB Column length is 155018 and search for 32 length string.

Here is my test.

| INSTR  | LIKE  |
|:-------|------:|
| 0.857  |0.539  |
| 0.127  |0.179  |
| 1.635  |0.534  |
| 0.511  |0.818  |
| 0.429  |1.038  |
| 1.586  |0.772  |
| 0.461  |0.172  |
| 0.126  |1.379  |
| 1.068  |1.088  |
| 1.637  |1.169  |
| 0.5    |0.443  |
| 0.674  |0.432  |
| 1.201  |0.135  |
| 0.419  |2.057  |
| 0.731  |0.462  |
| 0.787  |1.956  |

The average time of INSTR is 0.797.

The average time of LIKE is 0.823.