On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:52:02AM -0700, Rich Shepard scratched on the wall:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Paul Corke wrote:
> 
> > What do you get from:
> >
> > select distinct state from companies;
> 
> Paul,
> 
> sqlite> select distinct state from Companies;
> 'ID'
> 'NV'
> 'OR'
> 'UT'
> 'WA'

  If that's a copy-paste from  a default sqlite3 session, the single
  quotes are part of the value.   i.e. you have four-character values,
  such as "'ID'".

   -j

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Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y  @  K R E I B I.C H >

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