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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/01/91 11:42
Usulnet (gdca@sbcglobal.net) writes:
> I was hoping someone has experienced this before, I'm having trouble
> googling this. I'm working with a poorly writtend database that has some
> fields named as such: MTIC_PROD_VEND[ 1]
>
> I do not have the option to rename this field but I do need to retreive
> data from it with SQL. I've tried a suggestion of [MTIC_PROD_VEND[ 1]]]
> and that doesn't seem to work, it may be because the 1 has a space
> leading it. Does anyone happen to have any suggestion to try to work
> around this? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
[MTIC_PROD_VEND[ 1]]] should indeed be what you need; you need to double
the closing delimiter to include in the string. What exactly do you mean
with "doesn't seem to work"?
Stu's suggestioned to use "" certatinly looks cleaner anyway.
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