Thanks Igor! It worked. JP
----- Original Message ---- From: Igor Tandetnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:21:26 PM Subject: Re: [sqlite] Convert the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP "Joanne Pham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all , > I have the following statement to convert the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP to > format as > TUE JULY 25 23:11:13 2008 but I got the empty string. Can you help me > why the empty string is returned. > Below is sql statement: > select > (case strftime('%w', d) when 0 then 'SUN' when 1 then 'MON’ when 2 > then ‘TUE’ when 3 then ‘WED’ when 4 then ‘THUR’ when 5 then ‘FRI’ > when 6 then ‘SAT’ end) || ‘ ‘ || > (case strftime('%m', d) when 1 then 'JAN' when 2 then ‘FEB’ when 3 > then ‘MAR’ when 4 then ‘APR’ when 5 then ‘MAY’ when 6 then ‘JUN’ when > 7 then ‘JUL’ when 8 then “AUG’ when 9 then ‘SEP’ when 10 then ‘OCT’ > when 11 then ‘NOV’ when 12 then 'DEC' end) >>> ' ' || > strftime('%d %H:%M:%S %Y', d) > from (select CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as d); Change strftime('%w', d) to CAST(strftime('%w', d) as INTEGER), and similarly for strftime('%m', d). strftime returns a string, which doesn't match any condition in the CASE statement, so the statement produces NULL, and then the whole expression becomes NULL. To avoid this, the result of strftime needs to be converted to integer. And fix smart quotes ‘’ to plain apostrophe ' Igor Tandetnik _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users