>I'm getting the name of the month with the following code in a select-sql from a table with totals for products shipped per day:
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>select distinct val(substr(shipdate,1,2)) as month_num,cmonth(ctod(shipdate)) as month
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>The field in the resulting table seems to be limited to the size of the first entry i.e. fieldsize = len(January). So all I get for the next month is Februar.
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>Is there any way to stop this from happening?
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>TIA
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>E.R. Gilmore

Sure:

Do "PADR(cmonth(ctod(shipdate)),9) AS month" clause. The length of 9 is for "September", the longest length.