Re: converting string value to integer

Manfred Koizar wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:13:50 +0000, Ken Guest <kguest(at)stockbyte(dot)com>
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>>How do I cast/convert a string value to an integer in 7.1.3?
>>I've tried using cast but it doesn't seem to work.
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>Does this answer your question? If not, show us an example of what
>you have tried.
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It does indeed. There were some trailing spaces which I was unaware of,
so I'm now using something akin to
SELECT CAST(TRIM('123 ') AS INT);

which works perfectly.

Thank you Manfred,

ken

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