Re: Casting

Yes.  Casts are done like this:

SomeFiled::int4

or SomeField::text

Double  colons is the key '::'
--rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas SMETS" <tsmets@altern.org>
To: "psql novice" <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>; "psql sql"
<pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 7:31 PM
Subject: Casting


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> I'm removing charaters from a String which should be numbers.
> I then want to make calculations on these numbers (calculate the ISBN
> number).
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> Do I have to cast the char into int's before I can do the calulations.
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> Also I looked in the User manual but could not find the modulo function
> where is it ?
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