Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/13/06 22:43

Roy Harvey (roy_harvey@snet.net) writes:
> WHERE LEN(ClaimNumber) = 8
>
> or possibly you will need
>
> WHERE LEN(RTRIM(ClaimNumber)) = 8


Since len() does not count trailing blanks, rtrim is redudant here.

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