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Message Posted: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 @ 12:33:44 GMT

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Generally speaking, it is a bad idea to try to treat "substrings" of integers as if they were character. (By the way, your query is ill- formed: how can a substring of length 1 be equal to a string of length 4?) If you want to select certain digits from an integer, you can isolate them by division, MOD, or some combination thereof. For instance:

integer_col / 100 will return all but the last two digits

integer_col MOD 100 will return only the last two digits

(integer_col / 100) MOD 100 will return the third and fourth digits from the right

I think you'll find that this uses much less CPU time than casting and substringing.

--wgr

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