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Re: STUFF command

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:12:58 GMT
Message-ID: <_dBac.148827$Cb.1528776@attbi_s51>

<grille11_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c4e6ad$k1n$1_at_reader1.imaginet.fr...
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to find the equivalent of the STUFF command from SQL (deletes
a
> specified length of characters and inserts another set of characters at a
> specified starting point).
> Would someone knows this?
> thanks in advance
>
>
> This example returns a character string created by deleting three
characters
> from the first string (abcdef) starting at position 2 (at b) and inserting
> the second string at the deletion point.
>
> SELECT STUFF('abcdef', 2, 3, 'ijklmn')
> GO
> ---------
> aijklmnef
>
>
>
>
>

Stuff is not a standard (AFAIK) of SQL (Structured Query Language). If you mean MS SQLServer SQL then that is a different story. Jim Received on Wed Mar 31 2004 - 09:12:58 CST

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