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Stripping Off Last Few Characters
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EFJ50701033
EFW1546066
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View 3 Replies View RelatedStrip Those RTF Tags Away
Sep 26, 2007This algorithm can be used to strip out HTML tags too.
With reference to http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=89973
and http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=90000CREATE FUNCTIONdbo.fnParseRTF
(
@rtf VARCHAR(8000)
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE@Stage TABLE
(
Chr CHAR(1),
Pos INT
)
INSERT@Stage
(
Chr,
Pos
)
SELECTSUBSTRING(@rtf, Number, 1),
Number
FROMmaster..spt_values
WHEREType = 'p'
AND SUBSTRING(@rtf, Number, 1) IN ('{', '}')
DECLARE@Pos1 INT,
@Pos2 INT
SELECT@Pos1 = MIN(Pos),
@Pos2 = MAX(Pos)
FROM@Stage
DELETE
FROM@Stage
WHEREPos IN (@Pos1, @Pos2)
WHILE 1 = 1
BEGIN
SELECT TOP 1@Pos1 = s1.Pos,
@Pos2 = s2.Pos
FROM@Stage AS s1
INNER JOIN@Stage AS s2 ON s2.Pos > s1.Pos
WHEREs1.Chr = '{'
AND s2.Chr = '}'
ORDER BYs2.Pos - s1.Pos
IF @@ROWCOUNT = 0
BREAK
DELETE
FROM@Stage
WHEREPos IN (@Pos1, @Pos2)
UPDATE@Stage
SETPos = Pos - @Pos2 + @Pos1 - 1
WHEREPos > @Pos2
SET @rtf = STUFF(@rtf, @Pos1, @Pos2 - @Pos1 + 1, '')
END
SET@Pos1 = PATINDEX('%cf[0123456789][0123456789 ]%', @rtf)
WHILE @Pos1 > 0
SELECT@Pos2 = CHARINDEX(' ', @rtf, @Pos1 + 1),
@rtf = STUFF(@rtf, @Pos1, @Pos2 - @Pos1 + 1, ''),
@Pos1 = PATINDEX('%cf[0123456789][0123456789 ]%', @rtf)
SELECT@rtf = REPLACE(@rtf, 'pard', ''),
@rtf = REPLACE(@rtf, 'par', ''),
@rtf = LEFT(@rtf, LEN(@rtf) - 1)
SELECT@rtf = REPLACE(@rtf, '0 ', ''),
@rtf = REPLACE(@rtf, ' ', '')
SELECT@rtf = STUFF(@rtf, 1, CHARINDEX(' ', @rtf), '')
RETURN@rtf
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thanks.
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example:
nice day
should return nice day
or if other html tags strip them off.
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Here's some sample data and what I've tried:
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[Code] .....
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How To Remove Html Tags From Varchar Value
May 20, 2008Hi !
i have a function written in c# which removes all html tags from the provide string like
public static string RemoveHTML(string HTML)
{
return Regex.Replace(HTML, "<(.|)*?>", "");
}
how can i apply such functionality to varchar field which removes all the html tags from it in stored procedure
Regards,
DiL
Stripping Non-Numeric Characters From A String Function
Jul 9, 2002Hi,
As part of a data search project I need to be able to strip all non numeric characters from a text field. The field contains various forms of phone number in various formats. In order to search on it I am going to remove all non numeric characters from the input criteria and from the data being searched.
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for eg
ASSet Tag
SR-062009-00032966
SR-062009-00032962
SR-072009-00020572
SR-072009-00020571
SR-072009-00020585
HH-092009-00038342
Table B
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Output
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SR-062009-00032966
SR-062009-00032962
SR-072009-00020572 ------121
SR-072009-00020571 -------121
SR-072009-00020585
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Nov 27, 2007I had a problem with the ntext datatype. I need to strip the HTML tags out of a ntext datatype column. I have sample query for that, which works fine for STRING, as stuff is the string function, what to do for ntext field.
=======The Process follows like this =========
--**************************************
--
-- Name: A relational technique to strip
-- the HTML tags out of a string
-- Description:A relational technique to
-- strip the HTML tags out of a string. Th
-- is solution demonstrates how to use simp
-- le tables & search functions effectively
-- in SQL Server to solve procedural / ite
-- rative problems.
-- This table contains the tags to be re
-- placed. The % in <head%>
-- will take care of any extra informati
-- on in the tag that you needn't worry
-- about as a whole. In any case, this t
-- able contains all the tags that needs
-- to be search & replaced.
CREATE TABLE #html ( tag varchar(30) )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<html>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<head%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<title%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<link%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '</title>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '</head>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<body%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '</html>' )
go
-- A simple table with the HTML strings
CREATE TABLE #t ( id tinyint IDENTITY , string varchar(255) )
INSERT #t VALUES (
'<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Some Name</TITLE>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="/style.css" TYPE="text/css" ></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF" VLINK="#444444">
SOME HTML text after the body</HTML>'
)
INSERT #t VALUES (
'<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Another Name</TITLE>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="/style.css"></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF" VLINK="#444444">Another HTML text after the body</HTML>'
)
go
-- This is the code to strip the tags out.
-- It finds the starting location of eac
-- h tag in the HTML string ,
-- finds the length of the tag with the
-- extra properties if any. This is
-- done by locating the end of the tag n
-- amely '>'. The same is done
-- in a loop till all tags are replaced.
BEGIN TRAN
WHILE exists(select * FROM #t JOIN #html on patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) > 0 )
UPDATE #t
SET string = stuff( string , patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) ,
charindex( '>' , string , patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) )
- patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) + 1 , '' )
FROM #t JOIN #html
ON patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) > 0
SELECT * FROM #t
rollback
Full Text Search Indexing HTML - Does The Filter Expect Certain Tags To Be Present As Standard?
Jul 10, 2007Hi, I was wondering if any SQL Server gurus out there could help me...I
have a table which contains text resources for my application. The text
resources are multi-lingual so I've read that if I add a html language
indicator meta tag e.g.<META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="ES">and
store the text in a varbinary column with a supporting Document Type
column containing ".html" of varchar(5) then the full text index
service should be intelligent about the language word breakers it
applies when indexing the text. (I hope this is correct technique for
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Full Text Search Indexing HTML - Does The Filter Expect Certain Tags To Be Present As Standard?
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<META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="ES">
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However, when I come to query this data the results always return 0 rows (no errors are encountered). e.g.
DECLARE @SearchWord nvarchar(256)
SET @SearchWord = 'search' -- Yes, this word is definitely present in my resources.
SELECT * FROM Resource WHERE CONTAINS(Document, @SearchWord)
I'm a little puzzled as Full Text search is working fine on another table that employs an nvarchar column (just plain text, no html).
Does the filter used for full text indexing of html expect certain tags to be present as standard? E.g. <html> and <body> tags? At present the data I have stored might look like this (no html or body wrapping tags):
Example record 1 data: <META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="EN">Search for keywords:
Example record 2 data: <META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="EN">Sorry no results were found for your search.
etc.
Any pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,
Gavin.
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