RE: RPAD problem

From: Johnston, Tim <TJohnston_at_quallaby.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:08:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003F0669.20020115105528@fatcity.com>

Use the NVL function... i.e. RPAD(NVL(A.SSN,0),9)

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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I am trying to create fixed length records from Oracle variable length data.

I have the command RPAD(A.SSN,9) in the select statement of a query. If the person has '' in the SSN field, RPAD does not pad it out to 9 spaces.

Is there aother way to do this?

Thanks,
Rod
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