But when I tried, select left (loc1,3) from openart_table where..
Try without the space between 'left' and '(',
I mean... LEFT(loc1, 3)
where loc1 is the name of the column,
and 3 the characters you want to show.
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Atte, Andrés G. Montañez
Técnico en Redes y Telecomunicaciones
Montevideo
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(BFrom: Sugimoto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(BSent: 19 April 2005 07:58
(BTo: php-db@lists.php.net
(BSubject: [PHP-DB] PHPMySQL left/substring etc problem
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(BHello,
(BI need your help about PHP (ver 4.3.1) and MySQL (ver 3.23) database.
(BI am struggling to customise a
Hello,
(BI need your help about PHP (ver 4.3.1) and MySQL (ver 3.23) database.
(BI am struggling to customise a database (using left command etc), and am
(Bstuck now.
(BPlease have a brief look at my scripts below.
(B
(BWhat I do like to do is to get first 3 letters from "loc1" column from
