Re: parsing column info

--- "Johnson, Shaunn" <SJohnson6@bcbsm.com> wrote:
> I no longer want the decimals in that column.  Is
> there
> a way to parse out the decimals when copying this
> into
> a new table?

Assuming that this column is a varchar(50) like the
others, and that all you want is to delete the decimal
points, probably the easiest way is to use the
"translate" builtin function:
SELECT translate(field,'.', '') (I think: check the
syntax under "string functions" in the docs).

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