Re: Problems with data type (number converted to char)

oops, didn't even see that. Sorry about that.

;-)

Manu wrote:
>
> This sure will work but, as I told you, the problem is that the select has to be done on *, ans TRIM(*) won't work... Anyway if you know how to make TRIM work for *, i'll be happy to share your knowledge ;)
> Thanks
>
> E.Andreu
>
> > TRIM(col_name)
> >
> > Manu wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> I'm actually having problems with Oracle 8.1.7 and ASP2 (i don't know if this would happen on other versions, but these are mine).
> >> When doing vie ASP a "select * from TABLE where COLUMN='this' and OTHER='that';", the content of the columns that are NUMBER(5) is interpreted by ASP as being a character. I cannot add this number to another one in ASP without doing a cint() to force it to be considered as an integer, or doing a trim(). That's why I think that my 'select' brings me the number and blanks, making ASP consider it as a character.
> >> Is there a parameter that would tell Oracle to systematically trim all data? Or at least all data from NUMBER() types? So that the result of my query would not be ' 5 ' nor '5 ' but '5'...
> >> Or do you think the problem's elsewhere?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> E.Andreu
Received on Tue May 28 2002 - 10:47:08 CDT