christophorus
Technical User
I am trying to replace the leading blank spaces in a character column with leading zeros.
Ex: " 669025" to "00669025
Ex: " 669025" to "00669025
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Replace leading spaces with leading zeros
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TonyGroves
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You could use either REPLACE or the TRIM and LPAD functions.
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christophorus
Technical User
Thanks!
I used replace with update:
mysql> update table_name set table_field = replace (table_field, ' ', '0');
I used replace with update:
mysql> update table_name set table_field = replace (table_field, ' ', '0');
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