hi, don:
thanks a lot for the tip. and thanks even more for echoing the poor tone
i used in my post--i will try to avoid writing such posts in the future.
after looking at the documentation (many connection problems today), i
was able to write this, like i wanted:
SELECT User, SendDate FROM $table_name
WHERE (Answer=0)&&( abs((SUBSTRING(SendDate, 1, 2)) - $NowDay) > 7 )
thanks again,
tom
Don Read wrote:
>
> On 19-Sep-2001 Tom Churm wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > could someone please tell me why this doesn't work? i thought that
> > string functions could be used in select statements? i dunno...
> >
> > SELECT User, SendDate FROM my_form
> > WHERE substr(SendDate, 0, 2)=19;
> >
> > and i've tried the damn thing with brackets around all different parts.
> >
>
> Try to figure out the damn difference between PHP substr() & SQL SUBSTRING().
>
> > thanks much,
> >
>
> your welcome,
> --
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