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Re: Change single digits to double digits.

From: Bricklen <bricklen-rem_at_yahoo.comz>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:55:19 GMT
Message-ID: <rVDlb.31416$i92.29229@clgrps13>


Prince Of Thieves wrote:

> I want to change all single digits to double digits, eg. 1=>01, 2=>02, etc.
> The digits are in a TEXT field and there are some double digit and alpha in
> the same field.
>
> I tried the following syntax but got an error:
>
> UPDATE vmigrp SET clustcd = "0" & clustcd
> WHERE Length(clustcd)=1;
>
> And the error is "Var Parse Error" and another soon after "ORA-00933: SQL
> command not properly ended".
>
> Can this be done?
>
> --
>
> Julian Milano
>
>

UPDATE vmigrp SET clustcd = '0'||clustcd WHERE Length(clustcd)=1;

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