Re: SQL requiring blanks (was: it did the job)

Peter

It's good practice, IMO, to put spaces after commas
anyway. As I said, it helps my tired old eyes.

Glad you found it. I'd kind of wondered about language
differneces.

Cheers

Vern
> Hi gang,
>
> I found out why our SQL requires a blank after the commas when using the
> substr()  and other functions:
>
> If your decimal separator is *comma (as is the case on our systems), you
> need a blank after each comma, to indicate that you are entering the next
> parameter, and not a number with decimals.
>
> I just knew it had to be something simple (but well hidden).
>
> Note to IBM'ers monitoring this list:  Is it possible to have a new version
> of SQL where you can specify your own separator character, so that we could
> use for instance substr(field:1:1)?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Colpaert
> Application Developer
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