Re: QRY : I want to transform string to number ? -- MIDRANGE-L

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RE:     Re: QRY : I want to transform string to number ?

If the Number is always in positions 3-8 of the whole field,  you could
make a DDS logical using the substring keyword to break it out for all
programs & user queries.

John Carr



>Are the numbers you want always in the same place within the part number? 
>If so, you could describe a data structure:
>    I                  DS
>    I                               1  15 PART#
>    I                               3    8 NBR1
>
>Where PART# would be your complete part number, and NBR1 would be the
>field you want to extract.

>> I would like to extract informations from these fields, but
>>get it  > i
>>boothm@earth.goddard.edu

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