Sorry, I'm not able to understand how I can use this solution!!!
can you better explain me your suggestion???

Thanks very much


Il giorno gio, 13/04/2006 alle 06.51 -0700, Richard Broersma Jr ha
scritto:
> Just a thought,
> 
> Could you achieve that same result using the binary representation of an 
> integer?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
> --- ivan marchesini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Dear users,
> > I have this problem 
> > 
> > I have a table where there are 20 columns named
> > vinc1, vinc2, vinc3, vinc4, etc....
> > 
> > the values contained into each column are simply 1 or 0  (each column is
> > dichotomic)
> > 1 means presence
> > 0 means absence
> > 
> > I would obtain a column (new_column) containg the name of the columns,
> > comma separated, where the value is = 1
> > 
> > for example:
> > 
> > vinc1       vinc2   vinc3   vinc4   new_column
> > 1   0       1       0       vinc1,vinc3
> > 0   0       0       1       vinc4
> > 0   1       1       1       vinc2,vinc3,vinc4
> > 
> > can someone help me to find the best way to obtain this result???
> > thank you very much
> > 
> > Ivan
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ivan Marchesini
> > Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
> > University of Perugia
> > Via G. Duranti 93/a 
> > 06125
> > Perugia (Italy)
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Ivan Marchesini
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Perugia
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