Re: Help another zipcode delimma

anitra_tanner_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Thanks for the help on the previous question but now I have been
> presented with the following issue.
>
> In the same field we have 3 different scenarios
>
> 5 digit zip
> 12345
>
> 6 digit zip
> 12345-
>
> 10 digit zip
> 12345-1311
>
> I want to say give me all the zips that are 5 and 6 digits and where
> there is a 6 digit, dont show the
> dash (-). so when my query runs they will all look like 5 digit
> zips. I have made a seprate query for the 10 digit.
>
> previously I used length(zip) = 5
>

Why doesn't the SUBSTR function I showed you earlier not work here? (Rhetorical question)

You can use SUBSTR to get just the first 5 characters no matter how many are contained in the column and use that in your comparison.

HTH,
Brian

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