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Actually Charles, I think you may be on the right track for the task at
hand. I believe Adam said he just wants to SORT based on numeric value.
So, for ordering only, something like this may suffice:
SELECT * FROM myLib/myFile
ORDER BY TRIM(TRANSLATE(myField,' ','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'))
Adam, works?
Perhaps ASCending versus DESCending matters?
And maybe changing ' ' as replacement character into something more inline
with number sorting?
Elvis
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-----Original Message-----
Subject: RE: SQL question - trim leading alphabetic characters
ignore my post...
It gets rid of all letters....
Charles
-----Original Message-----
Subject: RE: SQL question - trim leading alphabetic characters
Adam,
Why don't you use Elvis idea?
I'm on v5r2, so I can't use replace, but TRANSLATE works...
select trim(translate(myfield,' ',
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ',' '))
from myfile
Charles
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