Thanks, that works fine. If I wanted to create an alias for the column,
how would I do that? The first select statement (before the Else) is
the current column name.
When I add 'AS system' to the end of the string, it fails.
Ex.
SELECT
CASE
WHEN CHARACTER_LENGTH(system) > 65
THEN
CONCAT(LEFT(system, 60), " ...")
ELSE
system AS system
END,
wsh_year,
id
FROM wsh
Rik Forgo
JIST3
Army Test, Training and Technology Integration Office (T3I)
Diverse Technologies Corp.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Wagoner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:34 PM
> To: Richard Forgo; MySQL Mailing List
> Subject: RE: case expression
>
> Put the other fields after the CASE statement:
>
> SELECT
> CASE
> WHEN CHARACTER_LENGTH(system) > 65
> THEN
> CONCAT(LEFT(system, 60), " ...")
> ELSE
> system
> END,
> wsh_year,
> id
> FROM wsh
>
> The CASE statement just returns 1 field.
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