Re: SQL Update ?

This could be simplified a little - just use the case part for the first 3
characters and concat it to the remainder.

update rob/casetest
set testfld =
case
when substr(testfld,1,3)='300'
  then '400'
when substr(testfld,1,3)='310'
  then '410'
...
...
else
  substr(testfld,1,3)
end
|| substr(testfld,4,14)

At 08:46 AM 4/18/02 -0500, you wrote:
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>One update:
>
>update rob/casetest
>set testfld=
>case
>when substr(testfld,1,3)='300'
>  then ('400' || substr(testfld,4,7))
>when substr(testfld,1,3)='310'
>  then ('410' || substr(testfld,4,7))
>else
>  testfld
>end