Re: STUFF command

Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
> <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

He did mean from MS SQL Server. I'm assuming this because the text and the example is cut and paste, word for word, from Books Online.

Cheers,
Brian

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