Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/12/05 01:11

scholzie (scholzie@gmail.com) writes:
> In a column I have some values for part names. The 6th character tells
> you where the part came from, and this is the same scheme for every
> single part in the database.
>
> If I want to do something like return the basic name of a given part,
> without the factory identifier character, I need to replace that
> character with a '_' character. (So for instance '11256CA' and
> '11265AA' and '11256MA' would all just get turned into '11256_A' and
> only one row would be returned in the SELECT DISTINCT statement)
>
> I know how to replace an instance of a given character using replace(),
> but how can I alter a specific character in a string if all I know is
> the index of the character within the string?

Have you looked at substring()?


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