From: Louise Cofield <lcofield@box-works.com>
To: 'George Weaver' <georgew1@mts.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Looks are important
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:19:43 -0700
Message-ID: <003a01c3a973$743eed00$7801a8c0@Louise> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00ac01c3a96a$a165b290$6400a8c0@Dell4500>
Try the TRIM function or the LTRIM function:
SELECT RPAD(no,30,' ') || TRIM(tableb.kind) FROM tablea
WHERE tablea.kind = tableb.kind
Louise
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of George Weaver
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:12 PM
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: [SQL] Looks are important
Hi Everyone,
I am trying to concatenate two fields through a query:
SELECT RPAD(no,30,' ') || tableb.kind FROM tablea
WHERE tablea.kind = tableb.kind
The result gives (for example):
4595448 Green
5966 Yellow
106-60033 Green
15-94-387 Red
217-991173 Blue
What I would like to have is better alignment:
4595448 Green
5966 Yellow
106-60033 Green
15-94-387 Red
217-991173 Blue
Is there some kind of encoding or other string options that will result
in better alignment than what I've tried with Rpad?
Thanks in advance,
George
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