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Subject: Can UPDATE statement do something like this...
From: "Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:38:13 -0700
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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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