Re: Str Function
Posted in 1998
Jose Miguel Giraldez — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
What if I need to do something like:
select * from tableA where numeric_column[1,2]="15"without using a cursor.
Jos' Miguel.
Art S. Kagel wrote:
> Jos' Miguel Giraldez R. wrote:
> >
> > Hi all:
> > Would you be kindly to help this newbie to find the informix function, that
> > converts numeric columns to character type, equivalent to STR?
>
> There is no such function since Informix automatically converts between
> text and numeric based on the type of the variable you are fetching the
> data into. Fetch that integer into a string and voila! it's a string.
>
> Art S. Kagel