Removing Commas(,) In A String
Mar 7, 2000Do anyone know of a function, that I can use to removed commas
from a string? eg. "The lady, cross the road" should be "The lady cross the road"
Thanks, Vic
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Removing Commas From A Select
May 15, 2008I'm trying to export a query to a csv file. Everything works great
until I hit the name field. Is there a way to remove commas from a select statement.
Here's what my Data looks like
Item # | Name
-------------------------
1111 | Acme, Inc
1112 | Test Company, Inc
I'd like it to print out as
Item # | Name
-------------------------
1111 | Acme Inc
1112 | Test Company Inc
Thanks for any help in advance.
T-SQL (SS2K8) :: Removing Commas In Column
Feb 5, 2015I have a simple statement where I am trying to remove all commas that may be in the xn_workordeld column.
SELECT
xn_workordeld = case replace(xn_workordeld, ',', '') as "WORKORDER LD"
from workorder
Removing Leading And Trialing Commas
Mar 7, 2008Hi All,
Is there a way to remove Leading & Trialing Commas (,) in a string using SQL code ? Appreciate any thoughts.
Thanks
Removing Commas From Column - Now It's A Mile Long
Jun 24, 2007Hello,
I recently used the REPLACE command, as described in a previous topic on this forum, to remove unwanted commas however I've now got a new problem, the column has become half a mile long. I was asked to raise a new topic and give examples, see below:
CAN ANYONE TELL ME:
1. Why is the column now bigger?
2. How can I redue the size of the column to it's origional size?
I have already attempted to use CONVERT, RTRIM and CAST around the replace command, all give an error.
Example query and result before REPLACE:
select ICMAFinInstName,CptyCode from tradedetails
ICMAFinInstName CptyCode
---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------
Example query and result using REPLACE:
select replace (ICMAFinInstName,',',' ')AS NoCommaInst,CptyCode from tradedetails
NoCommaInstrument CptyCode
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------
(I see in the preview that this forum has removed the spaces between the titles, but the dashes (--) show the size of the columns
Thanks
JM
How To Find All Commas Positions In The String?
Mar 24, 2006Hi,
Can you help
I have a string that has multiple commas:
'AAA,BBB,CCC,DDD,EEE,...'
I need to pick any characters between commas or find all commas positions.
Removing Rows That Contains Long String
Mar 23, 2004Anyone know how to check the length of a varchar data in a table? I want to delete rows that contains an entry that exceeds 100 characters.
I should be able to write a program to do it, but I am wondering if I can do it in SQL.
Removing Partial String From Column
Oct 11, 2005how do i update a table which has like two strings in 1 column like
blog, joe ?
i want to strip the joe into a new field and the blog into another field
update Agency
set firstname= substring(firstname,charindex(' ',firstname)+1 ,len(firstname))
i managed to strip the first name which is the string at the back but not the last name which is the string at the front
Removing All End Of Line Character From A String
Aug 6, 2007Hello all,
Im looking for an efficient way to remove all end of line character from a string.
Is there a function to do that or to replace them with another character?
Updating The String Removing The Strings.
May 20, 2008I have to write a query to update the table to remove dots .... from the string value.
so i could write.
UPDATE tbaddress
SET Title='New address'
WHERE Title='New address....'
but, there could be more than this specific record in the table, so i have to find each single record to do this. Is there a way to update the table so I can just remove the .... but rest of the text remain.
thanks
Need Help Removing String Data From Text
Apr 4, 2008I was wondering if someone could tell me how to use an SQL Function to remove everything from the mess of characters below except 'Test.' Really, any message could be substituted, so it's not as easy to leave everything except the 'Test.' string.
{
tf1ansiansicpg1252deff0deflang1033{fonttbl{f0fnilfcharset0 MS Shell Dlg 2;}{f1fnil MS Shell Dlg 2;}}
{colortbl ;
ed0green0lue0;}
{*generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;}viewkind4uc1pard x720cf1f0fs20 Test.f1par
}
It's RichText.
The fs20 could be fs24, fs25, etc. (any numbers). The end of the number would be the point to trim the beginning off.
The '' seems like it would be the point to start trimming the end off.
I've been experimenting with SUBSTRING together with CHARINDEX, but am just not getting even close to coming up with a solution.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thank you.
Removing Special Characters From A Number String.
Jul 11, 2001Hi,
I was wondering what would be the best way to remove special characters like, '-', '&' '(',')','#','*', etc... from a number string. To be specific a phone Number string where the string is >= 10.
Thanks, Mark
Removing Or Replacing Part Of A String In A Field?
Mar 4, 2008Hi all I was wondering whether it was possible to remove or delete part of a String in a Field? Lets take for example I have:
- A Table called: Table_1
- A Field called: MyField
- MyField contains the value: Hello I am on the msdn forums
Is it possible to perform an UPDATE Query which deletes part of that sentence? If this was hard coded it would be rather simple but if the phrase was changing which would lead to the sentence also changing is it possible to do this?
Lets say I wanted to remove the part which said msdn forums. Then UPDATE the field again which should leave out the bit msdn forums.
Appreciate the responses, Onam.
SQL Server 2012 :: Removing Character (Letters Only) From A String
Dec 19, 2014I need to build a query, or use a function to removing alfabetic Character from a string.
My string is
WI14000323-0003
The value i want to keep is : 14000323-0003.
I try using this SELECT:
SELECT STUFF(Upper(z.lote), PATINDEX('%[A-Z]%', Upper(z.lote)), 2, '') from mytable
but in this case i have only 2 letters WI, but in the future i dont know if is only 2 letters, 1 letter or more, then is not what i pretend.
SQL 2012 :: Removing Consecutive Characters From Middle Of A String
Apr 14, 2015I usually do this through Access so I'm not too familiar with the string functions in SQL. My question is, how do you remove characters from the middle of a string?
Ex:
String value is 10 characters long.
The string value is X000001250.
The end result should look like, X1250.
I've tried mixing/matching multiple string functions with no success. The only solution I have come up with removes ALL of the zeros, including the tailing zero. The goal is to only remove the consecutive zeroes in the middle of the string.
SQL Server 2012 :: Removing Greek Characters From A String
Sep 17, 2015I have a varchar field which contains some Greek characters (α, β, γ, etc...) among the regular Latin characters. I need to replace these characters with a word (alpha, beta, gamma etc...). When I try to do this, I find that it is also replacing some of the Latin characters.
DECLARE @Letters TABLE (Letter NVARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO @Letters VALUES ('a'), ('A'), ('b'), ('B'), ('α')
SELECTLetter, REPLACE(Letter,'α','alpha')
FROM@Letters
In this case, the "α" is being replaced, but so are "a" and "A".
I have tried changing the datatype from varchar to nvarchar and also changing the collation.
SQL Server 2012 :: Removing Duplicate Character From String
Oct 18, 2015How to write a function to remove duplicated characters only if they come in sequence.
Examples
darrk should return dark
eeagle should return eagle
redd should return red
corner should corner as it is as the r's are not in sequence.
Integration Services :: SSIS Is Removing Leading Zeroes From 6 Character Time String?
May 29, 2015I am using SSIS 2012 SP1 to import a comma delimited csv file into a SQL table.
One of the fields carries a time value:
Source = textfile, column=DT_STR(8), value format = "hhmmss", e.g. "011525"
Destination = field in SQL table, data type = time(0)
To get it from the textfile to the SQL table I am:
1.) Creating a derived column called [d_Time of Entry]with the following formula -
SUBSTRING([Time of Entry],1,2) + ":" + SUBSTRING([Time of Entry],3,2) + ":" + SUBSTRING([Time of Entry],5,2)
2.) Performing a data conversion task to convert [d_Time of Entry] from DT_STR(8) to time(0) The upload fails because values that start with a zero, i.e. times before 10am, have their leading 0's stripped before being derived. You can see this because "011525" is derived as "11:52:5" when it should be "01:15:25".
Removing Non-numeric Characters From Alpha-numeric String
Oct 24, 2007Hi,
I have one column in which i have Alpha-numeric data like
COLUMN X
-----------------------
+91 (876) 098 6789
1-567-987-7655
.
.
.
.
so on.
I want to remove Non-numeric characters from above (space,'(',')',+,........)
i want to write something generic (suppose some function to which i pass the column)
thanks in advance,
Mandip
Query Using Commas
Mar 12, 2007Hi,
I have table Article(ID,Title,FAID)
I need a query that will select all the Article.ID records where the FAID contains the number of the article ID
For exapmle, Article Table content is:
1, "Title1","2,6"
2, "Title2",""
3, "Title3","6,1"
6, "Title6","2"
Lets say I want to get all titles of article ID 1. I am going to its FAID which is "2,6"
So the query will return : "Title2", "Title6"
Can you advice how to write this? I can do a walk around solution where I will open a new table name FA but I rather not to.
Missing Commas
Feb 18, 2008I have a normal nvarchar(50) field in a table that has a single comma in it but when i read it using OleDbDataReader the comma gets removed.
any ideas what i am doing wrong ?
many thanks
Commas In Excel
May 10, 2008Hi
I have an excel file with 2 columns:
article art_group
kb art,tp,key
portal grup,port,li
I have a table in the database called tb_artGroups with the columns
article art_group
Now for each row in the excel i have to write the values after the comma in a new row such as:
article art_group
kb art
kb tp
kb key
portal grup
etc...
How can i do that with SSIS?
Thanks
Whisky-my beloved dog who died suddenly on the 29/06/06-I miss u so much.
Commas In The Result Set
Sep 4, 2007
I am using SQL 2005 and have a query that returns seven columns of data. In one the columns, the results contains commas. For example, one of the results is 'brooke, nick, dustin, and me.jpg'. The results are saved into a .csv file so it can be imported into Excel. The user named the file with the commas and I need to preserve the original file name.
My question:
Is there some way to format the data inside of SQL so that when it gets saved as a .csv file, the extra commas don't throw off the column layout?
I don't want to have to manually clean up possibly several hundred rows of data everytime I run the query.
Thanks in advance.
BCP And Commas/double-quotes
Jul 30, 1999Hello all,
I am using SQL Server 6.5 SP5a.
I have to use bcp to import two text files everyday for database update. The problem is that some of the character fields that are being imported have double-quotes and/or commas in them. When these are imported into the SQL Server tables additional double quotes are being added into these strings.
Example:
INCOMING STRING = a"a
IMPORTED STRING = "a""a"
INCOMING STRING = b,b
IMPORTED STRING = "b,b"
I have searched through BOL and have not been able to find any information.
Does anyone know what is causing this and if so how to correct it?
Thanks,
Bryan Ziel
Format Numbers With Commas
Jul 4, 2007Hello Nice simple T-SQL question that will no doubt prove totally uncontroversial :) Anyone know the easiest way to get from:123456789to123,456,789in T-SQL? Currently I cast my int as money, use convert to varchar with style 1 and then lop off the .00. Is there an easier way? Two things before you get all upset and start squealing about front ends:1) These are admin functions that I am running from SSMS. I don't want to go to the bother of creating an application when SSMS is perfectly adequate for what I need (namely to-a-large-degree unformatted result sets).2) I'm not too fussed about it just curious. Ta & tra la!
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Nov 17, 2014I have a hierarchy of product categories and I want to string them together to show the complete path (breadcrumbs) to the item. Each category/subcat must be separated buy a comma. The catch is that not all items have the same number of cats/subcats. Here is what I am currently doing, but as you can see, this results in extra commas where the subcats are null.
Code:
create table #ItemCat(
itemNo int,
Cat varchar(50),
SubCat1 varchar(50),
SubCat2 varchar(50)
[Code] ....
Is there some way to concatenate these, separated by commas, but ignoring the NULL fields? For example, ItemNo 1 should show "Kitchen, Appliances"
Formating Numbers With Commas
Jul 23, 2005I am pulling several numbers from a SQL table, adding them and doingvarious calculaitons. The numbers do not display a comma to separatethousands. What is a way to format this?
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Jan 1, 2008Hey everyone. I've never posted on this site before so if I miss anything, please let me know.
I need to order the following data
18
14,15
13.2
14.2
15,16
15
0
14.1
12
6
15,16,18
11
16
15,17
13
14
14,15.2
17
into this order:
0
6
11
12
13
13.2
14
14.1
14.2
14,15
14,15.2
15
15,16
15,16,18
15,17
16
17
18
Because the data contains commas, I've had to change the data type to varchar. I've seen several instances of PATINDEX used however I have not ran across any of them that would put the above in the order in which I need. Btw, I have about 20 columns with this type of data and I eventually plan to use the results of each column to populate dropdownlists . Thank you all in advance.
Selecting Data Seperated By Commas
Jun 3, 2008Have a column in my DB called _Venue, which has been populated with address information separated by commas, like this:
Address1,address2,address3,address4
The address has sometimes only a few lines, for example I may have just Address1 or just address1 and address2 filled etc.
I need to write a query that will individually select addressX, so I can pick and choose what part of the full address to use.
Can these be done?
Thanks in advance.
Extra Commas In Flat File
Jul 13, 2007I am trying to create a SSIS package with a csv flat file for the both the destination and source. I cannot control the source file. I need to be able to handle an extra comma in the source file which occasionally contains suffixes i.e. {John, Smith, Jr,} which could cause some records to be 9 fields and others 10. Any ideas?
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Dec 19, 2007How can I convert a field with commas, cents and decimal to a numeric without commas and decimals and cents...?
Sample nvarchar values to desired output (integer whole value, truncated or rounded doesn't matter):
0.00 to 0
14,000.04to 14000
139,234.31to 139234
14,017,300.00to 14017300
Formatting Numbers With Commas In TSQL
Jul 20, 2005Once I've converted my floats to chars using STR, is there an easy wayto put commas in separating the thousands.i.e. convert53000000.12to53,000,000.12I'm thinking I'll have to do it with a user defined function and thevarious string functions myself but was wondering if anyone had aneasier way?CheersDave
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Jun 26, 2007HI
I have three different columns as email1,email2 , email3.I am concatinating these columns into one i.e EMail like
select ISNULL(dbo.tblperson.Email1, N'') + ';' + ISNULL(dbo.tblperson.Email2, N'') + ';' + ISNULL(dbo.tblperson.Email3, N'') AS Email from tablename.
One eg of the output of the above query when email2,email3 are having null values in the table is :
jacky_foo@mfa.gov.sg;;
means it is inserting semicoluns whenever there is a null value in the particular column. I want to remove this extra semicolumn whenever there is null value in the column.
Please let me know how can i do this