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Old 06-05-06, 02:57
xamukoru xamukoru is offline
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convert text field type to string
Hello!

I want to extract some part of text field and convert into string...

I use a querry like these

select SUBSTRING (text_field1 FROM 3 FOR 2) from table1 where ...

can i use o querry like this...select (CAST text_filed as varchar(8))..or something like that?...i'm beginner with informix....

Thank you!
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Old 06-21-06, 08:05
gurey gurey is offline
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Hi,

Please test running SELECT text_field1[ 2,3] from table1 where...

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