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Message Posted: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 @ 16:44:54 GMT

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Hi

You could try the approach below. However, it is not pretty but illustrates one way to skin that cat!

     SELECT
     'a bc  d' as test

     , case when substr(test, 1,1) = ' ' then '' else substr(test, 1,1) end
     ||
     case when substr(test, 2,1) = ' ' then '' else substr(test, 2,1) end ||
     case when substr(test, 3,1) = ' ' then '' else substr(test, 3,1) end ||
     case when substr(test, 4,1) = ' ' then '' else substr(test, 4,1) end ||
     case when substr(test, 5,1) = ' ' then '' else substr(test, 5,1) end ||
     case when substr(test, 6,1) = ' ' then '' else substr(test, 6,1) end ||
     case when substr(test, 7,1) = ' ' then '' else substr(test, 7,1) end as
     new_text

Good luck

Frank

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