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oracle - Reverse String Word by Word using SQL

I would need to reverse the word positions in a sentence or String.

For example : "Hello World! I Love StackOverflow", to be displayed as "StackOverflow Love I World! Hello". 

Can it be done with a SQL ? The word length is no greater than VARCHAR2(4000) which is the maximum length support in a Oracle VARCHAR2 table column.

I got solutions for reversing a string (Characters in reverse order) only

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XML-based version to avoid defining your own function; requires 11g for listagg():

select listagg(word, ' ') within group (order by rn desc) as reversed
from (
  select word, rownum as rn
  from xmltable('for $i in ora:tokenize($STR, " ") return $i'
    passing 'Hello World! I Love StackOverflow' as str
    columns word varchar2(4000) path '.'
  )
);

REVERSED                               
----------------------------------------
StackOverflow Love I World! Hello        

The XMLTable() does the tokenising, and assigns a row number:

select rownum as rn, word
from xmltable('for $i in ora:tokenize($STR, " ") return $i'
  passing 'Hello World! I Love StackOverflow' as str
  columns word varchar2(4000) path '.'
);

        RN WORD               
---------- --------------------
         1 Hello                
         2 World!               
         3 I                    
         4 Love                 
         5 StackOverflow        

The listagg() then pieces it back together in reverse order.


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