Nested methods

[Ivan Smahin]

jda wrote:
> I thought perhaps the SELECT CASE statement might do what I'm looking 
> for. Here's a query that looks like it should work, but returns nothing. 
> Any ideas?
> 
> SELECT CASE WHEN
>     LOCATE('The ',title)=1 THEN RIGHT(title, LENGTH(title) - LENGTH('The 
> '))
> ELSE
>     WHEN LOCATE('An ',title)=1 THEN RIGHT(title, LENGTH(title) - 
> LENGTH('An '))
> ELSE
>     WHEN LOCATE('A ',title)=1 THEN RIGHT(title, LENGTH(title) - 
> LENGTH('A '))
> ELSE
>     title
> 
> 

I guess you have some exception from parser -right?

Anycase you should use much more simple statement:

  SELECT
	CASE
		WHEN ... THEN ...
		WHEN ... THEN ...
		WHEN ... THEN ...
		...
		ELSE  title
	END

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Best regards,
Ivan Smahin