Re: SQL question du jour -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: SQL question du jour
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:37:27 -0500
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Jim,

That is a 512 byte character field, not a varying length character field.
It just happens to contain several blanks at the end. I probably would
have made any field that was that many character bytes a varying length
field.

However, since the design is already there I am going to assume that you
do not want to count any trailing blanks. If so, then you need to combine
a trim command along with character_length. See also: LTRIM, RTRIM, TRIM
at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/db2/rbafzmst02.htm

Rob Berendt

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