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COncatenation with blank values

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:08 am
by dr.murthy
Hi all,

Could you please let me know how to concatenate
two values with blank space.
my reqirement is some thing like
concatenate lastname and fristname
with blank value
foe example
fristname-->GIRI
lastname--->KIRAN
reqired reult is GIRI KIRAN
So far i tried with
fristname : ' ' : lastname

but its giving result 0

Any suggestions???

Re: COncatenation with blank values

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:21 am
by syeed
fristname-->GIRI
lastname--->KIRAN
fristname:' ':lastname

dont give any spaces in between and then try, it is working for me.

Re: COncatenation with blank values

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:22 am
by syeed
fristname-->GIRI
lastname--->KIRAN
fristname:' ':lastname

dont give any spaces in between and then try, it is working for me.

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:23 am
by nani0907
Hi,
Are fisrt name and secomd names two different columns.

Use below logic

fristname : Space(1) : lastname .

Let me know how it works.

Thanks
Sana

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:27 am
by Sainath.Srinivasan
What is the datatype for target column ?

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:15 am
by dr.murthy
nani0907 wrote:Hi,
Are fisrt name and secomd names two different columns.

Use below logic

fristname : Space(1) : lastname .

Let me know how it works.

Thanks
Sana
Hi ,

thanks for respond,

now its giving
fristnameSpace(1)astname.
not giving appropriate result

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:31 am
by richdhan
Hi Murthy,

1. What is the stage you are using?

2. As Sainath asked what is the datatype of the target column

This is pretty straight forward. You just have to use a transformer and use the following derivation

LinkName.FirstName:" ":Linkname.LastName

HTH
--Rich

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:34 am
by dr.murthy
Sainath.Srinivasan wrote:What is the datatype for target column ?
Data type is varchar2

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:37 am
by chulett
Where are you doing this, what stage?

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:56 am
by dr.murthy
hi,


now its working fine.

Thanks

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:24 am
by rwierdsm
If one of the variables are null, the whole string will evaluate to null: i.e.

Firstname: ' ' : Lastname

If Firstname = 'Rob'
Lastname - 'Wierdsma'
result will be 'Rob Wierdsma'

If Firstname = null
Lastname = 'smith'
result will be null.