I have a table called 'Journal_Info' containing titles of various journals When searching and listing them I want to remove any preceeding 'The ', 'An ', or 'A ' that occurs in the title and I also want to be able to search it. The case statement as follows seems to work fine:
SELECT CASE WHEN title LIKE 'The %' THEN RIGHT( title, length( title ) -4 ) WHEN title LIKE 'A %' THEN RIGHT( title, length( title ) -2 ) WHEN title LIKE 'An %' THEN RIGHT( title, length( title ) -3 ) ELSE title END AS modtitle FROM Journal_Info But if I try a WHERE clause using the columns AS title I get an error. Can anyone help me figure out how to search the CASEed column? Thanks in advance for any help. Scott
