RE: SQL - how to update first byte of field

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

StoneJ wrote:

>Using SQL, can I modify the first byte of an alpha 
>field without affecting the rest of the field?
>
>Something like:
>
>runsql 'update FILENAME set substr(item,1,1) = ''6''

I don't think you can update a substring, but you can say something like set
item = '6' concat substr(item,2,29)

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
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 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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