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 Substring of float value and performTaskon this

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ranjeetsingh_6
Posting Yak Master

125 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-04 : 03:33:50
Hi I have a Table VEHICLETRACK .This Table have a column Latitude its datatype is float . I want to get substring(at 8 digit) of column Latitude.Then i want to perform some task on this substring and again get substring of column Latitude and again perform some task .

Means I want a Loop to get substring then perform some task on this substring then again get substring then perform task .... untill all rows end of column.

Ranjeet Kumar Singh

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-04 : 03:36:24
convert from float to varchar() and use substring() on it


KH

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kbatna59
Starting Member

1 Post

Posted - 2011-02-21 : 02:36:07
Try to change the float as char in the following format
select Substring(cast(account as char),1,2)as "Acct",



Kam
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khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2011-02-21 : 02:45:20
Kam, in case you didn't notice that was a 5 year old thread.


KH
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madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2011-02-21 : 03:21:41
quote:
Originally posted by khtan

Kam, in case you didn't notice that was a 5 year old thread.


KH
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It seems that for the first time posters it does not matter they always want to reply to the topic to which they know the answer

Madhivanan

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