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Re: SQL Insert - Removing Blanks Between Pipes

On 12/9/10 4:28 PM, Robert Munday wrote:

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?


Remove trailing blanks too [with the given, seems probable], or just trim for all space characters? One of the following probably would suffice:

SELECT ... '|' concat RTrim(Field_Name) concat '|'

SELECT ... '|' concat
case Field_Name when '' then ''
else Field_Name
end
concat '|'

Regards, Chuck

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