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Re: decode

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriole.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:44:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CEAA4.20030903124427@fatcity.com>


Imran Ashraf wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have this query...
> select decode(length(sn),8),substr(sn,-7),sn )from .....
>
> However i want to change it so that if the length of sn is >= 8 then set sn
> to last 7 characters.
>
> How can i implement this?
>
> Regards
> --
 

   decode(sign(length(sn) - 8, 1, ..., 0, ..., sn)

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