HELP: Assigning a high-length VARCHAR2 to a low-length one

Hello,

    Could anyone please help me with a small problem:

I need to assign v1 to v2, where v1 is VARCHAR2 with a greater length than v2. Is this possible? An error is raised when I attempt.

If this is not possible, is there a way to extract the n leading characters of a VARCHAR2 string?

Thanks in advance,

Peder Received on Tue Jan 18 2000 - 04:05:48 CST