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Decode - based on 1st character of field

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anniez

anniez

IS-IT--Management
Apr 13, 2001
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I have a character field, UNIT.
It could have any value from 000 to 999.
I want to update the field, GROUP, to be "WBU" when UNIT begins with '3'. Do I use the substr() function within the decode? Something like this?

group=decode(substr:)new.UNIT,1,1),3,'WBU')


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Hi,
Should work, have you tested it?
( Pl/Sql may not know about substr, however)
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