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Old 03-03-09, 15:25
skisalomon77 skisalomon77 is offline
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IDS 9 - Extracting specific bytes from a column

I'm looking to extract only certain data from a column. For example, the column shows 00131339-36456, but I only want to extract 131339 into a new column.

Is there a way to do this in IDS 9?
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Old 03-06-09, 05:17
stanislav.ondac stanislav.ondac is offline
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you can use substring function...for details, take a look to the manuals.
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