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Re: Can UPDATE statement do something like this...

Hi, Dave:

The answer is here (I asked the same question about a month ago.) ;-)

http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200709/msg01607.html

Thanks again to Vern for the answer!

Mark S. Waterbury

> Dave Odom wrote:
I'd like to use the UPDATE statement to update a specific character in a character string of a column of a table. Something like:
UPDATE dodom.table1 set SUBSTRING(column5, 5,1) = 'B'
where column2 = 'CP'
Of course the above bombs on the paren after SUBSTRING; expects token like =
If not possible, I'll create a program using REXX and SQL.
Thanks in advance,
Dave O

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