MS SQL LTrim

Mar 26, 2007

I Have a sql select statment and i need to trim white space off one of my columns .

How do I do that please help.

RTRIM And LTRIM

Sep 4, 2001

Could somebody please give me a syntax that I can use to trim spaces. I have used and I still have the spaces. :

UPDATE MAP SET ROAD = RTRIM (STREET)
UPDATE MAP SET ROAD = LTRIM (STREET)

We are trying to clean up spaces at road intersections. Thanks for your assistance.

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Oct 5, 2004

I have some data that contains spaces both before and after the text string, and now I'm wondering what would be the best method to remove these blanks (sometimes there are no blanks, so I can't check with a specifik width)?

Is it possible to do something like:

set foo = ltrim(rtrim(foo))

or do I have to split it into 2 steps?

This trimming will be done in update & insert statements

// Pati

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Nov 13, 2005

How do i remove carriage returns in SQL Server ? each of the lines have a carriage return as well as in front and back of the text.

Keith Waltin

Transport Ticketing Authority

03 9651 9066

I've tried the

update test.dbo.test
set bodytext1 = ltrim(rtrim(bodytext1))

but the whitespace/carriage returns still exists in the back and front of the text ? Anyone got any ideas ?

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Sep 7, 2006

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May 8, 2008

can anyone explain me what happens when we write the above for a col.

I k now it remove spaces but can anyone explain with exmpls

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Jun 13, 2007

Hello All,

I am trying to ltrim a portion of multiple fields in a grouping. I am able to do it for one of them, but unfortunately there are several I have to do it for. If I use the following expression, it works for that one.

Code Snippet

=iif(Fields!BankNumber.Value="083" and Fields!TestName.Value="Inquiry Menu - Bank 083",LTRIM("Inquiry Menu"),Fields!TestName.Value)

However, if I try and do it for more than one it errors out. For example...

Code Snippet

=iif(Fields!BankNumber.Value="083" and Fields!TestName.Value="Inquiry Menu - Bank 083",LTRIM("Inquiry Menu"),Fields!TestName.Value)

OR iif(Fields!BankNumber.Value="083" and Fields!TestName.Value="Search Menu - Bank 083",LTRIM("Search Menu"),Fields!TestName.Value)

OR iif(Fields!BankNumber.Value="083" and Fields!TestName.Value="SEAX - Bank 083",LTRIM("SEAX"),Fields!TestName.Value)

Is there another way to arrange this so I can LTRIM each field group seperately?

Thanks,

Clint

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Jan 12, 2005

Hi i have a select statement as

select empnum, len(empnum), ltrim(rtrim(empnum)), len(ltrim(rtrim(empnum))) from employee

When i execute this stament i get the following

1234 61234 6
4321 84321 8
1111 61111 6
2222 62222 6

How does this happens. Why ltrim and rtrim is not working here.

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Dec 2, 2005

You all have been so much help, but I've discovered yet another problem. I'm trying to clean up my table using the following command:
UPDATE dbo.TableName
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Apr 17, 2008

I imported data into a database and the first character in an ID Field starts with %. This is causing many problems for the application. Unfortunately, this field exists in 72 of 128 tables in the database. Is there a way to LTRIM every ID field where the first character is %? This is easy in 1 Table but how do I apply it to all 72 tables at once? Thanks for for your assistance

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Apr 11, 2007

I am trying to follow an SSIS tutorial. It is doing a transformation on mainframe data.

It has the statement LTRIM(State) == '' in the Condititonal split editor.

The data type is DT_STR.

Nothing works (dbl quote,brackets, ect)

I have also tried to change the type to DT_WSTR. According to docs ltrim only works with Unicode.

Can someone please tell me how to detect an empty string.

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I'm not sure about why I'm not able to remove spaces even after trimming them. Below is the result of query I'm usning.

select distinct LTRIM(RTRIM(Promotion_Code)) Promotion_Code
--, count(Promotion_code)
from dbo.Marketing_Promotion_Tb
where Promotion_code like '%1BTPIZZA%'

Result :

Promotion_Code   Length
1BTPIZZA                10
1BTPIZZA                  8

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Hi

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If I try to use text datatype..It doesn't support rtrim, stuff functions etc...

So could any one suggest me a best way to save a long string without any restriction of size...

My front end is C#.Net and Back End is SQL SERVER 2000

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