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removing space and tab script [message #53971]

Tue, 22 October 2002 10:19

tony t
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Registered: October 2002

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Hello,
I have a column whose data has trailing spaces and tabs.. What update statement can I run to get rid of the trailing tabs and spaces? Thank you,

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Re: removing space and tab script [message #53972 is a reply to message #53971]

Tue, 22 October 2002 10:51

Mahesh Rajendran
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Registered: March 2002
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SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf

  1* select name,length(name),rtrim(name,' '),length(rtrim(name,' ')) from test2
SQL> /

NAME       LENGTH(NAME) RTRIM(NAME LENGTH(RTRIM(NAME,''))
---------- ------------ ---------- ----------------------
new                   7 new                             3
newa                  4 newa                            4
sdf                   3 sdf                             3
ddd  dd d             9 ddd  dd d                       9

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