Re: Spacing in output

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:21:48PM -1000, Jerome Lyles wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2004 11:15 am, you wrote:
> > What is the field size of prod_name? You could use SUBSTR(prod_name,1,xx)
> > where xx is the max number of characters you want to see.
> >
> > Duane
> fieldsize: 255. I tried to use SUBSTR:
>
> sql_tutorial=> SUBSTR(prod_name,1,45; SELECT prod_name FROM Products;
> sql_tutorial(>
> sql_tutorial(>
> sql_tutorial(> SELECT prod_name FROM Products;
> sql_tutorial(> SUBSTR(prod_name,1,45;
>
> but I have the syntax wrong. What does '(>' instead of '=>' mean?

That means you havn't closed the opening bracket on the first line.
Every open bracket must be matched by a closing one...

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