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Douglas
10-10-2000, 11:46 AM
Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone could give me a help here?

I have a customer order number field in one of the tables.
It looks like this

Cust Ord
C17475676 LM OE99
C12345687 LM SD87
C98754123 LM CB87

I want to strip out the LM in the data. So the data should look like this

Cust Ord
C17475676 OE99
C12345687 SD87
C98754123 CB87

I have spent most of the second part of my messing about trying find out how to do this but to no avail.

Any idea's???

Cheers

Doug.

carp
10-10-2000, 12:52 PM
IF all of the data is formatted as nicely as your example, you could try something like

UPDATE my_table
SET ord_num = substr(ord_num,1,10)||substr(ord_num,-4,4);

Mok Lo
10-12-2000, 06:17 AM
Or you could try the REPLACE function and have null as your replacement string.