RE: [sqr-users] Dealing with phone numbers in sqr

["Larry Roux" <LRoux@syr.edu>]

However, I must say that the SQR manual is not very good for questions such as 
this.  I mean, why would all the functions appear under the "let" statement?  
Freaky.  Luckily, I had time years ago to read through the whole manual and 
learn where stuff was, but not everyone is a single geek like me who has time 
to read the whole manual.

Granted, I prefer to find the answer on my own in most cases, but we all need a 
little help every now and again.  I am afraid that people will start feeling 
"uh, oh, is this question too 'stupid'?  Will I get flamed if I ask it?" and 
the whole idea of the list will die.

I say, get a life.  If you think the questioner is lazy, then don't answer.  
No-one is forcing you to do so.  




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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@syr.edu
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>>> KnappR@umsystem.edu 06/02/03 09:33AM >>>

I'm on Dave's side here.  It seems lately that we are receiving a flood of 
naive questions that seem to indicate lack of any effort at all to solve the 
problem on the part of the questioner.  In any case, I don't believe it really 
helps someone to have the entire problem coded in detail by someone on the list 
who has a solution.

Richard Knapp
Database Programmer/Analyst
Institutional Research and Planning
University of Missouri System
573-882-8856
knappr@umsystem.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Hood Louise (app1lxh) [mailto:app1lxh@ups.com]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 7:59 AM
To: 'sqr-users@sqrug.org'
Subject: RE: [sqr-users] Dealing with phone numbers in sqr


Varsha,

You're far too rough on poor David.  He's not racist.  He just views the
rest of us as truly loathesome creatures, not real programmers like he is.
When he's not programming, his favorite pasttime is sneering.

Pardon me while I duck.
L

-----Original Message-----
From: Varsha Das [mailto:vdas@mail.ucf.edu] 
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:03 AM
To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
Subject: Re: [sqr-users] Dealing with phone numbers in sqr


David,

This is an SQR users group, and not a slam-people group. This is where you
go to get help on writing SQR code. If you have a problem with that perhaps
this is not the group for you? I'm sure you are a crack SQR programmer, and
don't need anothing except a SQR manual to look at, but not all of us are,
and this forum is a place to get help from other folks who may have a quick
answer to a question. 

Why the slam on IIT? I'm not a graduate from IIT (nor do I know the person
who asked the question in the first place) but your comment sounded racist
to me.

Regards,

Varsha.

>>> thorburn@conl.net 5/29/2003 8:06:56 PM >>>
Ashish,

I have done this type of programming many times.

The catch is that you have to KNOW the language well enough to code!

I guess they don't tech real coding at IIT...?  Only resume writing...?

SQR is a programming language!  Learn it and you will have no problems.

     [ Hint: Delimiters, Concatenation ]

Regards,

David

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Prasanna Menta" <pmenta@umuc.edu>
To: <sqr-users@sqrug.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [sqr-users] Dealing with phone numbers in sqr


> USE THE SUBSTR OR REPLACE FUNCTION
> Example replace(Column,<what to replace>,<with what>)
> hope this helps
> Prasanna
>
> Ashish Bhatt wrote:
> >
> > Hi All SQR Gurus,
> >
> > I hope you are doing fine today.
> >
> > I am writing a sqr in which I need to give the user the phone
numbers 10
> > digits in the format 9999999999.
> >
> > My problem is that I have the phone numbers as (123)-456-7890 or 
> > 123-456-7890. How to convert these to 1234567890 ?
> >
> > Has anyone done this before in SQR ?
> >
> > If yes, please share with me.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Have a nice day and great week.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Ashish Bhatt.
> >
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