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 - 09:20:13 CDT
