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  3. March 2002

RE: selecting data with 2 different data types

Giri Gopal wrote:
>I am select data from 2 different files.
>The where condition is comparing
>a.field with b.field.  A.Field is character
>10 long and B.Field is Numeric 6
>byte long. Can I convert B.field to a
>character before comparing to A.field
>with a substring 1 to 6 bytes?

Will this work?
where substr(a.field,1,6) = digits(b.field)

  --buck

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