RE: SQL function for clear text field

["Dan Kimmel" <dkimmel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Naw.. You can REPLACE(fieldname, ' ','') a string with an empty string. 

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan Campin
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: SQL function for clear text field

For special requirements you might need to write a UDF (User Defined Function). The blank compression in a string would be trickee.

2009/10/28 Tomasz Skorża <t.skorza@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> Hi
>
> Do you know if in SQL on AS400 are some bult-in function which can 
> change some character to another - like dash "-" to space " ", and 
> other which can delete all space from text - so it will change "TOMASZ SKORZA"
> to "TOMASZSKORZA"?
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