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RE: RPGSQL update one column of a field.

Are you talking about this:
Update filea set fielda = substr(fielda : 1 : 99) concat '*'

If so, why is that "not quite SQL"?


-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Rodriguez [mailto:luisro58@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2017 8:07 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RPGSQL update one column of a field.

Although the syntax is "not quite" SQL, the idea of using CONCAT is not that off the mark. In some languages the '|' character does not map as the SQL concatenation operator. If you are thinking of using your statement outside of the US you could write it as:

set fielda =concat(substr(fielda, 1, 99), '*')

Regards,
Luis



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