Re: SQL: WHEN FIELDA "ISNOT NUMERIC"...? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: SQL: WHEN FIELDA "ISNOT NUMERIC"...?
From: CRPence <crp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:01:30 -0500
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The following clause defines criteria to include rows where FIELDA has no digits, because the TRANSLATE expression is changing all digits to blank, which ensures a miscompare to the unchanged value for FIELDA.

WHERE FIELDA = translate(FIELDA, ' ', '0123456789')

Regards, Chuck

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Re: SQL: WHEN FIELDA "ISNOT NUMERIC"...? , Alan Shore
Re: SQL: WHEN FIELDA "ISNOT NUMERIC"...? , Peter Vidal

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