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Thank you, Luis! Yes, I should have thought of CAST.

Wrap the SUBSTR's with a CAST to convert them to numeric, and I believe
you've got the problem solved.
*********
Select
Substr(foocol, 1, position(' ', foocol) - 1) as N1,
Substr(foocol, position(' ', foocol) + 1) as N2 FROM footab
*********

Having said that, on V5R3 the statement's choking on the comma within
position( , ). I suspect that position is not a function defined in V5R3.
Still in search for that pesky function like %SCAN in RPG or INSPECT in
COBOL or C's strstr() ... (Again, though I did have the parms backward, the
mySQL equivalent is instr().)

Dennis Lovelady
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Regards,
Dennis



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