RE: combine column?

yes there is an excellent way of doing this. First of all you need to use the concatenation operator to combine the two columns E.g. select col_a || col_b from table_name where ...... this will combine the tow columns together. However the first column will retain the trailing spaces. To get rid of these spaces so that column b appears right after column a then you should use the TRIM function. The syntax is something like: select TRIM(TRAILING col_a)||col_b from table_name WHERE .... This only applies to V7.2 I think. If I'm wrong I'm sure somebody will correct me. If you do not have V7 then I think you can only do this in a 4GL. Many Regards Rekaish > -----Original Message----- > From: Yan Zhu [SMTP:yan.zhu@infinity-insurance.com] > Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 2:12 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: combine column? > > > hi all: > is there anyway to combine text fileds in a select statement? > say i have a,b as fields in my table, what would be the sql to > output one column whose content is the combination of a and b. If the > value in field a is "informix", and the value in b is "iscool", I want > my output to be "informixiscool". possible? > thanks > yan >