Re: Datatype conversion help

I used trim and here's what I came up with:
to_date(trim(to_char(yr, '9999') || trim(to_char(mn, '00')) ||
trim(to_char(dy, '00'))), 'YYYYMMDD')

Apparently to_char adds a space to the charecter you are casting.
Yasir

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Dmitry Tkach wrote:

> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:40:37 -0400
> From: Dmitry Tkach <dmitry(at)openratings(dot)com>
> To: Yasir Malik <ymalik(at)cs(dot)stevens-tech(dot)edu>
> Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help
>
> What about lpad?
>
> select lpad (7, 2, 0) || '-' || lpad (9, 2, '0') || '-2003';
> ?column?
> ------------
> 07-09-2003
> (1 row)
>
>
> I hope, it helps...
>
> Dima
>
> Yasir Malik wrote:
>
> >Thank you so much! But my problem is that when I do
> >to_char(mn, '00') || '-' || to_char(dy, '00') || '-' || to_char(yr,
> >'9999')
> >
> >where mn, dy, and yr are ints, is that the output has a space after the
> >the dash. For example, I get
> >07- 25- 1994
> >
> >instead of what I want:
> >07-25-1994
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Yasir
> >
> >On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Richard Rowell wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Date: 08 Jul 2003 15:21:33 -0500
> >>From: Richard Rowell <richard(at)bowmansystems(dot)com>
> >>To: Yasir Malik <ymalik(at)cs(dot)stevens-tech(dot)edu>
> >>Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help
> >>
> >>On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:07, Yasir Malik wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I've tried to_char(in_val, '99'), and that returns a string that is two
> >>>
> >>>
> >>select to_char(9,'00');
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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