Redefining a column within a view

["Schade, Jeffrey" <JSchade@xxxxxxx>]

We have a table which contains a 3 byte column with datatype CHAR(3) which we want to redefine within the view as a CHAR(1) column and a CHAR(2) column. When I code the SUBSTR function the resulting column datatype is TEXT. I would like to see the CHAR datatype, is there anything I can do to set the proper datatype. The sample view is below:

 

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW schema.jeff_view AS

 SELECT col1 ,

                col2,

                Substr(col3,1,1) as col3_part1,

                Substr(col3,2)     as col3_part2,

                col4

  FROM schema.jeff_table;

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Jeff

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