RE: Using SQL to replace characters less than Blank

Hi Dan


Probably not missing anything - LOCATE tells you the position of the first instance it finds. Here it comes after the word This.


Cheers
Vern


On Wed, 1 May, 2024 at 9:44 AM, Dan Bale <dan.bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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5? There are only 3 spaces in that string. What am I missing? (I replicated that here as well.)

- Dan

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Subject: RE: Using SQL to replace characters less than Blank

Hi Birgitta

I like your idea, to use TRANSLATE. If he uses this, I think he should add control characters, as well, he is trying to replace X'0D'.

Casting, in my opinion, is not needed - both Glenn Gunderman and I used what was presented and had no problem. As a first attempt I ran this statement in RSS -

values locate(x'40', 'This has a space')

The result was 5.
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