Was just an examle date column ;-)

Anyhoo, jsut a note to say, it's sorted..(I did the mass replace by hand 
:-( but at least it's done...
I've also sorted anotehr prob too, so all in all, a productive morning...
I jsut wish I could remember all this stuff for next time!






"Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
28/08/2003 11:29

 
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Then a simple substring will do:

UPDATE mytable
SET url = SUBSTRING( url FROM 5 )

btw your date column looks pretty awful.

HTH
Ignatius
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> Sorry, I'll specify...
> I have one column, in a row of perhaps 4 fields.
> I want to remove the first 32 characters from onlt one field
>
> EG:
> My DB:
>
> name    date    url     ip
> bob     1/2/99  http:// 1.1.1.1.
> sue     4/6/01  http:// 2.2.2.2
>
> If I wanted to remove just the http bit and leave ://
> I'd have to remove the first 4 characters from all the 'url' column.
> this is what I wanna do, jsut 100+ times over. but the first 32
> characters.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Ignatius Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 28/08/2003 11:04
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> hundreds of what? rows or columns?
>
> Ignatius
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> > Hi there,
> > I need to take a field in my database, and remove the first 32
> characters
> > from each entry...
> > There are 100's, and I know there's gotta be an easy way...
> > I've looked up string replace, and it only appears to work one at a
> > time...
> > Can anyone tell me how to make it accross the whole table...?
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