RE: concatenation question

Posted in 2000

Watson, Paul — Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:40:50 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Try let str_var = TRIM(str_var) || '*'; return str_var; Paul Watson WF Software Ltd Tel: +44 1436 674729 Fax: +44 1436 678693 www.wfsoftware.com/informix > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Cartwright [mailto:ben_informix@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 08:28 > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: concatenation question > > > I am writing a stored procedure and I am trying to add > an '*' to the end of a string variable and then return > the variable. as in: > > let str_var = str_var || '*'; > return str_var; > > I have tried this a number of different ways with no > luck, the original variable is return without the '*'. > > Thanks, > > Ben > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ >