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From Tad Marko
Subject Data conversion in query
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0303271337220.15434-100000@minime.tadland.net
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Hello,

I'm having a small difficulty that I am hopeful there is a simple solution
for. Basically, I am doing a join on a column that is numeric in one
database but a string in the other. Something like:

...WHERE a.numeric_zipcode=b.string_zipcode::integer...

The problem is that occasionally the string zip field has some
non-numeric characters. Unfortunatley, I cannot control the sanity of the
string zip field. The question is if there is any way that in the same
query I can filter out the rows that have non-number characters in the zip
field?

Thanks for any thoughts,

Tad


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