At 16:17 -0800 2/6/02, Richard Reina wrote:
>I am trying to trim both leading and trailing whitespace from a TEXT
>column in my SELECT query. I found the TRIM() command in the
>manual, however, I can't get it to act upon a column name instead of
>an actual string. Can anyone help?
If you just say TRIM(col_name) it will return the trimmed column value,
but it won't change the column itself. Try updating the column to its
trimmed value:
UPDATE tbl_name SET col_name = TRIM(col_name);
>
>Thanks,
>
>Richard
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