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Remove spaces when concetenating?

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mkallover

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Feb 6, 2008
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I'm creating a simple Select query as a source for a Report and in the query I am concatenating several fields like so:

Code:
(PRESBR_LAST_NME & ", " & PRESBR_FRST_NME & " " & PRESBR_MDL_NME & " " & PRESBR_SUFX) AS FullName

The problem is that the data in each field is space filled in order to use all characters. Is there a way to remove the spaces when concatenating so the results don't look like:

Code:
Smith           , John        A        Jr.
 
Ahhhh, apparently my Google-Fu was weak this morning when I started looking for a solution. I just found TRIM, RTRIM and LTRIM. So for posterity's sake I replaced my original concatenation with:

Code:
(RTRIM(PRESBR_LAST_NME) & ", " & RTRIM(PRESBR_FRST_NME) & " " & RTRIM(PRESBR_MDL_NME) & " " & RTRIM(PRESBR_SUFX)) AS FullName
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Especially when the space is found in the middle of the string :)

[pipe]
Daniel Vlas
Systems Consultant

 
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