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luismanuelp at gmail dot com
19 years ago
I am trying to get a list of the first character of a character string.

SELECT distinct substr(version,1,1) as COL1 FROM SPHVVERS where Version is not null order by 1

This was working and then failed recently. I think it is because some of the strings now added contain a number as the first character.

I found to get it to work I had to use decode statement. (To_Char did not work )

SELECT distinct decode (substr(version,1,1),'1','?','0','!',substr(version,1,1)) as COL1 FROM SPHVVERS where Version is not null order by 1

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