I used trim and here's what I came up with: to_date(trim(to_char(yr, '9999') || trim(to_char(mn, '00')) || trim(to_char(dy, '00'))), 'YYYYMMDD')
Apparently to_char adds a space to the charecter you are casting. Yasir On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Dmitry Tkach wrote: > Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:40:37 -0400 > From: Dmitry Tkach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Yasir Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help > > What about lpad? > > select lpad (7, 2, 0) || '-' || lpad (9, 2, '0') || '-2003'; > ?column? > ------------ > 07-09-2003 > (1 row) > > > I hope, it helps... > > Dima > > Yasir Malik wrote: > > >Thank you so much! But my problem is that when I do > >to_char(mn, '00') || '-' || to_char(dy, '00') || '-' || to_char(yr, > >'9999') > > > >where mn, dy, and yr are ints, is that the output has a space after the > >the dash. For example, I get > >07- 25- 1994 > > > >instead of what I want: > >07-25-1994 > > > >Thanks, > >Yasir > > > >On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Richard Rowell wrote: > > > > > > > >>Date: 08 Jul 2003 15:21:33 -0500 > >>From: Richard Rowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: Yasir Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help > >> > >>On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:07, Yasir Malik wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I've tried to_char(in_val, '99'), and that returns a string that is two > >>> > >>> > >>select to_char(9,'00'); > >> > >> > >> > > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > >TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
