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Message Posted: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 @ 22:51:12 GMT


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Subj:		Re: How to CAST a number without getting a decimal point.

From:		Dieter Noeth

BOB DUELL wrote:

This one works as well, but sorry Deiter, yours padded the result with blanks at the beginning

Argh, i didn't notice the ANSI CAST. Whenever i see a cast to a CHAR, i assume right aligned data :-)

Teradata style cast: first right align within the format and then apply the cast to char

     SELECT (123456789. (FORMAT '-(15)9') (CHAR(16))) || '#';

     (123456789.||'#')
     -----------------
             123456789#

     SELECT (123456789. (FORMAT '-(15)9') (CHAR(29))) || '#';

     (123456789.||'#')
     ------------------------------
             123456789             #

Which leads to unexpected results when the CHAR is not large enough:

     SELECT (123456789. (FORMAT '-(15)9') (CHAR(12))) || '#';

     (123456789.||'#')
     -----------------
             12345#

ANSI style cast: first right align within the format and then trim leading blanks

     SELECT CAST((123456789. (FORMAT '-(15)9')) AS CHAR(16)) || '#';

     (123456789.||'#')
     ------------------------------
     123456789       #


     SELECT CAST((123456789. (FORMAT '-(15)9')) AS CHAR(29)) || '#';

     (123456789.||'#')
     ------------------------------
     123456789                    #


     SELECT CAST((123456789. (FORMAT '-(15)9')) AS CHAR(13)) || '#';

     (123456789.||'#')
     -----------------
     123456789    #

Dieter


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