| Remove a space from concatenate report [message #202172] |
Wed, 08 November 2006 08:24  |
izza56
Messages: 7
Registered: October 2006
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Hi,
I have to create a file in discoverer for loading into an external database. I have created a report and am now preparing the output via concatenating certain fields.
This is a view of my calculation for the output:
Person Reference||TO_CHAR(Hours,'00000')||"Date-YYYYMMDD"||Dept_No
However when i view the output of this, there is a space between the person ref and the hours field. Is this something to with the to_char function im using? the output looks like this:
210031 005802006102801
I would like to drop this space, anyone know how?
thanks in advance,
J.
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| Re: Remove a space from concatenate report [message #202210 is a reply to message #202172] |
Wed, 08 November 2006 14:38  |
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Littlefoot
Messages: 21823
Registered: June 2005
Location: Croatia, Europe
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Two options from my point of view: first requires another function: TRIM; this part of the statement would then be
TRIM(TO_CHAR(hours, '00000))
Another solution is use of LPAD function, which would then replace both TRIM and TO_CHAR:
LPAD(hours, 5, '0')
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