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August 11th, 2004, 07:55 AM

gintom

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Substr Function

I am using Oracle 8 and trying to use the substr function but I keep on getting the following error:

ORA-00936: missing expression

The code that makes the error is below:

Code:

select * from F_WEB_FORM_DATA, F_INVENTORY, F_RATE_PERIOD 
where FORM_DATA_FIELD like ('INV') and 
FORM_DATA_FKEY_SESSION_ID = 277790485 
and (select SUBSTR(INV103, 4,3) = TO_CHAR(INI_SEQ) 
and INI_FKEY_RAP_SEQ = RAP_SEQ

I cant see what is wrong with the statement as this is taken from a SQL SERVER database and it works with that fine.

any help will be greatfull.

August 11th, 2004, 08:20 AM

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Code:

select * from F_WEB_FORM_DATA, F_INVENTORY, F_RATE_PERIOD 
where FORM_DATA_FIELD = 'INV'
 and FORM_DATA_FKEY_SESSION_ID = 277790485 
and  SUBSTR(INV103, 4,3) = TO_CHAR(INI_SEQ) 
and INI_FKEY_RAP_SEQ = RAP_SEQ

August 11th, 2004, 09:51 AM

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Thanks for the quick reply.

That works a treat.

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