RE: SQL UPDATE

I'd strongly suggest staying away from the dual vertical bars.  With all 
the horror stories about CCSID, and multilingual support, I wouldn't go 
there.  Luckily we caught a break with a MAJOR customer who agreed to 
change their element separator to a more standard character.  CL supports 
*CAT as an alternative.

I did send some bad stuff, (too much easy string handling with RPG 
lately).

This was tested and true:
update aaakey 
set loc= 
    substr(loc,1,13) concat 'a' concat substr(loc,15,1)

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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RE: SQL UPDATE






> From: J Michael Smith
> 
> Is it possible to use the UPDATE function to change the values for a
> string(Positions 28-36) within a 80A field?  If so, could you provide
an
> example.

update myfile set myfld =
 (substr(myfld,1,27) || 'NEW VALUE' || substr(myfld,37,44))


This will set positions 28-36 of every record to "NEW VALUE".

Joe


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