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Vack
Aged Yak Warrior
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 Posted - 2010-09-14 : 11:32:53
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| I have a table that has a field that stores excel file names.957.xls10049.xlswhat I want to do is strip the .xls and add leading zeros to the first portion so that it is a size of 12 and update a 2nd field in the same table. 000000000957000000010049Table name is xlscustomerField that contains 957.xls is field_nameField I want to update is cus_no |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2010-09-14 : 11:43:54
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update your_tableset cus_no = right('000000000000' + replace(field_name,'.xls',''),12)where cus_no is null --condition should avoid from updating rows where the column is already filled
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webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
8781 Posts |
Posted - 2010-09-14 : 11:44:36
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No, you're never too old to Yak'n'Roll if you're too young to die. |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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right justify leading zeros