Re: Datatype conversion help

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=functions-formatting.html#FUNCTIONS-FORMATTING-DATETIMEMOD-TABLE

See the pattern modifier "FM".  From the docs:

"FM prefix - fill mode (suppress padding blanks and zeroes)"

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 01:28 pm, Yasir Malik wrote:
> Thank you so much!  But my problem is that when I do
> to_char(mn, '00') || '-' || to_char(dy, '00') || '-' || to_char(yr,
> '9999')
>
> where mn, dy, and yr are ints, is that the output has a space after the
> the dash.  For example, I get
> 07- 25- 1994
>
> instead of what I want:
> 07-25-1994
>
> Thanks,
> Yasir
>
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Richard Rowell wrote:
> > Date: 08 Jul 2003 15:21:33 -0500
> > From: Richard Rowell <richard@bowmansystems.com>
> > To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [SQL] Datatype conversion help
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 15:07, Yasir Malik wrote:
> > > I've tried to_char(in_val, '99'), and that returns a string that is two
> >
> > select to_char(9,'00');
>
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