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Trim a field in In-DB

AJ-CH
8 - Asteroid

Hello Friends, 

 

I am looking for solution to Trim the first 2 characters of a V_String Field in In-Database.

 

Thanks for help in Advance!!

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jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

Depends on the database server you are connected to unfortunately.

 

Oracle uses SubStr([Field],3) and SQL Server uses SubString([Field],3, LEN([Field])-2)

 

See http://www.sqlines.com/oracle/functions/substr

 

AJ-CH
8 - Asteroid

My Bad, I didn't explain my question correctly,. I am looking for solution to get only first 2 characters from a v_string field. 

MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

left(field,2) should likely work in your SQL.

 

Cheers,

Mark

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