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substring and host variable [message #38758] Mon, 13 May 2002 03:01 Go to next message
kkcheok
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Registered: May 2002
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can somebody describe for me what ia substring and what is host variable???
thank you!!!!

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Re: substring and host variable [message #38803 is a reply to message #38758] Thu, 16 May 2002 00:30 Go to previous message
seng
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Registered: February 2002
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substring is a function to get part of charapter in a string.
e.g substring(2,5,"abcdefghijk") -- "bcdef"

host is use to execute your host command.
e.g
sql> host dir

hope this is helping

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