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Jens

One possibility would be to use the TEXT("0002") expression. That might 
work, but it's non-standard syntax.

Pete

----- Original Message -----
From: Jens Panse <jens.panse@EasternGraphics.com>
Date: Monday, February 12, 2001 1:23 pm
Subject: InstantDB: integer or char() error

> We have to handle different kinds of article numbers 
> (string/char), that
> may consist of numbers starting with 0.
> But using the following statement (simplified) always leads to 
> trouble.
> "SELECT '00002' FROM test"  and you will receive "2" not "00002"
> 
> This seems to be of the same kind as "SELECT lower("00002") FROM test
> 
>    AWT-EventQueue-0 java.sql.SQLException: LOWER requires a single
> string parameter
>    java.sql.SQLException: LOWER requires a single string parameter
> 
> 
> The string "00002" is never interpreted as a string (or char), how can
> one force it to be a string ?
> 
> Jens Panse
> 
> 
> 
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