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  1. 04-30-2007, 11:03 AM #1
    Sathy
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    Converting numeric values..

    Hi,

    I am having 5 digit numeric field and I want to convert the number by incrementing one on each digit.

    for ex:

    12345 should be converted as 23456
    56789 should be converted as 67890

    I thought of adding 11111, but it fails when the field has '9'.

    Is there any shortest way to do ?
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  2. 04-30-2007, 11:41 AM #2
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    1- Convert your numeric field into a string
    2- Build a conversion table... 1234567890 / 2345678901
    3- Process each element in your string field replacing chars as per conversion table
    4- Convert your string field back to a number

    Good Luck

    PS: I don't even want to know why you need to do that
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  3. 04-30-2007, 04:54 PM #3
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    This?

    Code:
     to_number(translate(to_char(my_column,'0123456789','1234567890'))) ...
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  4. 05-01-2007, 07:21 AM #4
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    Good job David

    Just a small syntax issue, try this:

    to_number(translate(to_char(my_column),'0123456789','1234567890'))
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  5. 05-01-2007, 01:43 PM #5
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    Oops. Thanks.
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  6. 05-02-2007, 06:09 AM #6
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    Thanks a lot David and PAVB ....

    Its working fine ...
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