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RE: Make first character Versal

From: Hately Mike <Mike.Hately_at_churchill.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:43:22 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00434D58.20020327074322@fatcity.com>


I didn't know what Versal meant so I found out. A versal letter is a letter that is enlarged to signify that it's the first letter of a passage. Think of illuminated scripts. Apparently the height of a versal letter is typically 24 times the width of the pen.

So I think that we were all right to think "upper case" even though the 2 are slightly different.

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Mike Hately

-----Original Message-----
Sent: 27 March 2002 14:18
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Actually both return the same (just tried in 8.1.7 on NT): select substr (test_col, 0, 1) from my_table select substr (test_col, 1, 1) from my_table

The problem may be with getting the VERSAL but don't know what it means

Witold

On 27 Mar 2002 at 4:38, Nicoll, Iain (Calanais) wrote:

> Roland,
>
> Substr starts with 1
>
> eg
>
> select (substr (namn,1,1)) from test will give you the 1 character
> starting from the first character.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know what you mean by versal.
>
> Iain Nicoll
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:59 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hallo,
>
> I know this question sound a bit simple, but can anyone give me a
> select statement which make the first character of the word in a field
> Would appreciate very much. I have checked the manual but cant get it
> right.
>
> I am starting with this sql statement:
>
> select (substr (namn,0,1)) from test to pick outthe first character
> and I want that first character to be a VERSAL.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Roland
>
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