Re: triming white space from a TEXT column

2002-02-13 Thread Richard Reina
> > >> I am trying to trim both leading and trailing whitespace from a TEXT >> column in my SELECT query. I found the TRIM() command in the manual, >> however, I can't get it to act upon a column name instead of an >> actual string. Can anyone help? > > > If you just say TRIM(col_name) it wil

Re: triming white space from a TEXT column

2002-02-12 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 7 Feb 2002, at 8:20, Richard Reina wrote: > I tried both ideas and neither one removed the white spaces. arrr! > :-( Unfortunately TRIM doesn't remove whitespace (spaces, tabs, carriage returns, linefeeds), as it does in some programming languages. It just removes spaces, unless you specif

Re: triming white space from a TEXT column

2002-02-11 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:17 -0800 2/6/02, Richard Reina wrote: >I am trying to trim both leading and trailing whitespace from a TEXT >column in my SELECT query. I found the TRIM() command in the >manual, however, I can't get it to act upon a column name instead of >an actual string. Can anyone help? If you jus

Re: triming white space from a TEXT column

2002-02-07 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 7 Feb 2002, at 8:20, Richard Reina wrote: > I tried both ideas and neither one removed the white spaces. arrr! > :-( Unfortunately TRIM doesn't remove whitespace (spaces, tabs, carriage returns, linefeeds), as it does in some programming languages. It just removes spaces, unless you specif

Re: triming white space from a TEXT column

2002-02-07 Thread Richard Reina
> > >> I am trying to trim both leading and trailing whitespace from a TEXT >> column in my SELECT query. I found the TRIM() command in the manual, >> however, I can't get it to act upon a column name instead of an >> actual string. Can anyone help? > > > If you just say TRIM(col_name) it wil

Re: triming white space from a TEXT column

2002-02-06 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:17 -0800 2/6/02, Richard Reina wrote: >I am trying to trim both leading and trailing whitespace from a TEXT >column in my SELECT query. I found the TRIM() command in the >manual, however, I can't get it to act upon a column name instead of >an actual string. Can anyone help? If you jus