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From: tonyg <tonythegair@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Unbounded String to string
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:28:38 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,
   I have an unbounded string from a database I want to turn into a 16
character subtype of string

i.e. unbounded_string to string(1..16)

I've been trying to do this most of the afternoon but keep getting
errors

anyone know how ?

Thanks