RE: 4GL CHAR Manipulation

Posted in 2004

Everett Mills — Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:11:42 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

I believe this is what you want: LET x = LENGTH(myvar) LET myvar = myvar[4,x] --EEM > -----Original Message----- > From: Francisco Roldan [mailto:f_roldan@admcentralagricola.com.gt] > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 4:31 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: 4GL CHAR Manipulation > > Hi everybody, > I need to eliminate the first 3 charactes of the > value in a CHAR variable, for example > > LET myvar="MV NAME" > > I need to eliminate "MV " and to > let myvar with the value "NAME". > > I have searched for string manipulation documentation > in the documents : > 4GL By Example > 4GL Concepts and Use > 4GL Reference Manual > > and I did not find anything. > > Any help would be appreciate. > > Thanks > > sending to informix-list sending to informix-list