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Re: Question about CHAR return from function

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:36:27 GMT
Message-ID: <3D6BB885.29F2C8DD@exesolutions.com>


Lloyd Sheen wrote:

> Just a small question. I am writing a function but it seems impossible to
> put a size to the return of a CHAR. I can use VARCHAR2 but would like to
> know if there is a way to return a CHAR with more than one character.

Why?

Is this a purely academic exercise is trying to make things as difficult as possible?

Or are you just attached to meaningless trailing spaces that make string comparisons more difficult?

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Aug 27 2002 - 12:36:27 CDT

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