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Subject: SQL Insert - Removing Blanks Between Pipes
From: Robert Munday <rwmunday@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:28:03 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
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Greetings from sunny Florida.

A staff programmer is writing to a pipe-delimited file using an SQL
Insert. He wants to remove blanks from a blank field should one occur:

Instead of | field of blanks |

he wants || .

How could this be done?

Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Jacksonville, Florida

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