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Hi all,
I'm having a spot of bother with the SUBSTRING() function, I don't think
I understand it properly...
I have a table (for example) with three cols 'id' | 'date' | 'text'
I want to return just 'date' and the first 30 chars from 'text'
I've
Hi -
NW I have a table (for example) with three cols 'id' | 'date' | 'text'
NW I want to return just 'date' and the first 30 chars from 'text'
NW I've tried this sql:
NW SELECT date, SUBSTRING(text, 0,30) as description FROM table WHERE id =
NW '2';
Start with position 1.
SELECT datefield,
On 14 Jun 2002, at 0:03, Nick Wilson wrote:
SELECT date, SUBSTRING(text, 0,30) as description FROM table WHERE id
= '2';
You can't assume that MySQL is like Perl, PHP, or any other language
you may be used to. Note this: For functions that operate on string
positions, the first position is
, June 13, 2002 6:03 PM
Subject: use of substring()
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Hi all,
I'm having a spot of bother with the SUBSTRING() function, I don't think
I understand it properly...
I have a table (for example) with three cols 'id' | 'date' | 'text'
I want to return
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* and then Julie Meloni declared
Start with position 1.
SELECT datefield, SUBSTRING(textfield, 1, 30) as description FROM
tablename WHERE id = 2;
Hi again Julie and thanks for 'cross list' help!
The problem is not that, at least not first
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* and then Nick Wilson declared
You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'desc FROM news ORDER BY date ' at line 1
Ooops, reserved word! Works great ;-)
Any way to add something to it like or should I do that in my
php?
Many thanks
