Re: where'd the spaces come from

Does anyone have a fix for this?


> From: "Gary Stainburn" <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
> 
> > psql -c "select t.tregion || '/' || to_char(t.tnumber,'000') || '-' ||
> > to_char(m.mnumber,'00') as unitno from teams t, members m
> > where m.mteam = t.tid;"
> >    unitno
> > -------------
> >  SW/ 041- 03
> >  SW/ 041- 05
> 
> Looks like a buglet in to_char()s handling of numbers (unless I
> misunderstand the way the formatting is supposed to work).
> 
> select '[' || to_char(12,'x000') || ']';
>  ?column?
> ----------
>  [x 012]
> 
> If you're running the current version, might be worth posting a bug report.
> You can work around it with something like:
> 
> ... substr(to_char(t.tnumber,'000'),2,3) ...
> 
> HTH
> 
> - Richard Huxton
> 
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