Re: Character translation?

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Linn Kubler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a view like this:
> create view myview as
> select recid, title, firstname || chr(32) || lastname as expert, rank
> from mytable;
>
> When I use this view via odbc on a Windows 2000 system using Visual FoxPro
> the expert field shows up as a memo field. This is analogous to the text
> field in PSQL.
>
> What I'd like to do is have the expert column come through as a varchar type
> so that it shows up as a text field in VFP. Any suggestions?
>
> I was looking at the functions and didn't see anything that would do the
> trick for me but I could have just missed something. I also saw a reference
> to the cast() function but couldn't find any usage info on it in the online
> docs.

cast() isn't a function precisely speaking. It works as
CAST(expr as datatype).