Re: Character translation?

Would this work?

select recid, title, firstname || chr(32) || lastname::char(50) as expert, rank from mytable where length(lastname) <=
50;



Troy

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a view like this:
> create view myview as
> select recid, title, firstname || chr(32) || lastname as expert, rank
>   from mytable;
> 
> When I use this view via odbc on a Windows 2000 system using Visual FoxPro
> the expert field shows up as a memo field.  This is analogous to the text
> field in PSQL.
> 
> What I'd like to do is have the expert column come through as a varchar type
> so that it shows up as a text field in VFP.  Any suggestions?
> 
> I was looking at the functions and didn't see anything that would do the
> trick for me but I could have just missed something.  I also saw a reference
> to the cast() function but couldn't find any usage info on it in the online
> docs.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
> Linn
> 
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