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Zachary keller
3,178 PointsThe way the question is worded confuses me.
Generate a list of strings that are in the following format: Andrew Chalkley andrew@teamtreehouse.com. Concatenate the first name, last name and email address for all users.
Alias it to to_field. This will be used in the "To" field in email marketing.
says email format is wrong
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,268 PointsYou forgot to show your query, but things to keep in mind while constructing one:
- be sure to concatenate with spaces between the items
- be sure the email area begins with a "<" character
- also be sure the email ends with a ">" character
- don't confuse the period that ends the instruction sentence with the pattern
- the comments about how this will be used for marketing have no bearing on the task
If you still have trouble, add a comment showing your query code.
Gaurav Sharma
5,496 PointsSELECT first_name || " " || last_name || " " || ||"<"|| email ||">"|| AS "to_field" from patrons;
Can someone provide the correct code that worked? above one is not working either
Steven Parker
231,268 PointsClose! But you have two concatenation operators ("||") with nothing between them.
And in future, start a fresh question instead of asking one as an "answer".
Zachary keller
3,178 PointsZachary keller
3,178 Pointsthanks for fast reply, i check marked "show code" sorry. and i know this isn't right but how to do i fix? i need to alias email as <email>? then alias all of it to be to_field?
SELECT first_name || " " || last_name || email AS to_field FROM patrons
Steven Parker
231,268 PointsSteven Parker
231,268 PointsI see you added the space between first and last names, but you still need both a space and the "<" character between the last name and the email, and a ">" after the email.
Zachary keller
3,178 PointsZachary keller
3,178 Pointslike this?
SELECT first_name || " " || last_name || " " || <email> AS to_field FROM patrons
because it doesnt say the error now but that means the error is between AS to_field FROM patrons
Steven Parker
231,268 PointsSteven Parker
231,268 PointsThe other characters need to be concatenated as literal strings, as you are doing with the spaces. You can have more than one character in a literal string (like a space with an angle:
" <").