Re: SQL SYNTAX

Thanks HTH,

This will not work where you are trying to change a character from a 132
bytes flat file and your character in position 61.
You have characters before and after position 61.

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rolf Mittag" <rm@r-m-e-d-v.de>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: SQL SYNTAX


> substr IMHO cannot be the target of an update
> operation. change to something like :
>
>         update qtemp/test
>                 set f1 = substr(f1, 1, 5) || '*' || substr(f1, 7)
>
> that will work (tested and cut & paste)
>
> HTH rolf
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