RE: SQL character field to numeric and back

Hmm, I think char() will mess you up if you have leading zeros... Use DIGITS() instead...

set substr(field, 1, 9) = digits(decimal(substr(field, 1, 9), 9, 0) + 2)

Eric

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Something like this:

set substr(field, 1, 9) = char(decimal(substr(field, 1, 9), 9, 0) + 2)

Duane Christen

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Allen
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:16 PM
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Subject: SQL character field to numeric and back


Situation is I have a 13 byte alpha field in a vendor supplied table on the
400.

The first 9 positions are a next number field as 000123456 followed by 4
blanks.

We are putting a .NET app together that needs to update/increment the
numeric portion of the data by 2 (in this example it would then be
000123458).. We've tried various combinations of CAST, CONVERT, SUBSTRING
etc without any luck

Thanks
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