How To Remove Characters In String
Jun 20, 2008There are unwanted characters(''','/','&'.. etc) in column.
I need to remove these characters
There are unwanted characters(''','/','&'.. etc) in column.
I need to remove these characters
I want to remove special characters from a string in sql like <?> in a column value in a table.
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I am having a string like (234) 522-4342.
i have to remove the non numeric characters from the above string.
Please help me in this regards.
Thanks in advance.
M.ArulMani
Hi to all,
I am having a string like (234) 522-4342.
i have to remove the non numeric characters from the above string.
Please help me in this regards.
Thanks in advance.
M.ArulMani
I have an Address column that I need to Substring. I want to remove part of the string after either, or both of the following characters i.e ',' OR '*'
Example Record 1. Elland **REQUIRES BOOKING IN***
Example Record 2. Theale, Nr Reading, Berkshire
Example Record 3. Stockport
How do I achieve this in a CASE Statement?
The following two case statements return the correct results, but I some how need to combine them into a single Statement?
,LEFT(Address ,CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(',',Address) =0
THEN LEN(Address )
ELSE CHARINDEX(',' ,Address ) -1 END) AS 'Town Test'
,LEFT(Address ,CASE WHEN CHARINDEX('*',Address ) =0
THEN LEN(Address)
ELSE CHARINDEX('*' ,Address ) -1 END) AS 'Town Test2'
I'm presented with a problem where I have a database table which must be migrated via a "custom tool", moving the data into a new table which has special character requirements that didn't exist in the source database. My data resides in an SQL Server 2008R2 instance.
I envision a one-time query which will loop through selected records and replace the offending characters with --, however I'm having trouble understanding how this works.
There are roughly 2500 records which meet the criteria of "contains bad characters", frequently containing multiple separate bad chars, and the table contains roughly 100000 rows.
Special Characters are defined as #%&*:<>?/{}|~ and ..
While the field is called "Filename" it isn't always so, it is a parent/child table where foldernames are also stored.
Example data:
Tablename = Items
ItemID Filename ListID
1 Badfile<2015>.docx 15
2 Goodfile.docx 15
3 MoreBad#.docx 15
4 Dog&Cat#17.pdf 15
5 John's "Special" Folder 16
The examples I'm finding are all oriented around SELECT statements, to change the output of what I see returned, however I'd rather just fix the entire column using an UPDATE. Initial testing using REPLACE fails because I don't always have a single character as the bad thing in a string.
In a better solution, I found an example using a User Defined Function to modify the output of a select, but I cannot use that UDF in an UPDATE.
My alternative is to learn enough C# to modify the "migration tool" to do this in-transit, but I know even less about C# than I do of SQL.
I gather I want to use @@ROWCOUNT to loop through the rows but I really can't put it all together in a cohesive way.
How do I remove the first 5 characters from a column?
I have a list of id's -
9999925173
9999924037
9999924063
9999924053
9999924053
0
0
9999924053
9999924049
9999924037
9999944659
9999924053
0
9999924032
9999924037
9999924053
For some reason, we add a 99999 to our ID's and in order to compare to the customers data, I need to remove the 99999 (if they exist) from the column.
How would I do that? LEN?
Here's the output I'm looking for -
25173
24037
24063
24053
24053
0
0
24053
24049
24037
44659
24053
0
24032
24037
24053
Thanks
Susan
Hi all,
I have a stored procedure that generates the following SQL WHERE clause
UserName LIKE 'Adi234%' AND Fname LIKE 'David%' AND LName LIKE 'Justin%' AND
It is good except that it i can not remove the last AND which is not neccessary at the end of the clause.
I want to remove the last AND that come up at the end, my code places AND after each data field(UserName, Fname, Lname) .
Thanks
I have the following sql statement:
SELECT FTE_CLASS_GROUP_NBR_DSCR
FROM dbo.DLIST_FTE_CLASS_GROUP
WHERE FTE_GRP_ID IS NOT NULL
This is an example of the result returned:
9999/00 Some lenghty text is displayed after the numbers
I want to trim everything after 9999/00
Is there a way to use rtrim to remove the characters after the numbers or another method?
Thanks,
-D-
I have data with invalid character in my source table. I'd like to remove the replace/remove the invalid characters. What function should i use?
e.g.,
0233‚¬
20116267 ‚¬{ ‚¬´E‚¬
I'd like to get only
0233
20116267.
I'd appreciate your inputs!
Thanks,
OM$
Can unwanted characters (e.g. control codes) be replaced or removed in varchar fields during extraction inside DTS package?
SQL Server/SSIS 2005.
Thanks, Andrei.
Hi
I have a table with a few hundred emailadresses. How can I delete all quotes (') from the addresses, so that 'email@email.com' is replaced as email@email.com.
Thank you
zipfeli
I have built a SSIS package that reads in data from a SQL Server 2005 source database into a flat file destination. The Row Delimiter is {CR}{LF}. The Column Delimiter is Tab {t}.
The data being read from the SQL Server database contains both {CR}{LF} and Tab {t} characters in various fields on several rows.
How can I process the input data from the SQL Server to remove these characters before passing it to the destination output file?
Sorry if this is obvious to all, but I am only just starting with SSIS...
Many thanks
Adrian
best possible way to remove all the characters after a 3rd repetition of a character?
For Example:
I want 10.0.1600.22 to be 10.0.1600
Everything after and including the '.' to be removed.
I understand Substring_Index() is not available whats the other options?
I have a string 'ACDIPFJZ'
In my table one of the column has data like
PFAG
ABCDEFHJMPUYZ
KML
JC
RPF
My requirement is that if the string in the column has any of the characters from 'ACDIPFJZ' , those characters have to be retained and the rest of the characters have to be removed.
My output should be:
PFAG -- PFA (G Eliminated)
ABCDEFHJMPUYZ -- ACDPFJZ (B,E,H,M,U,Y Eliminated)
KML -- No data
JC -- JC
RPF -- PF (R Eliminated)
I am looking for a function or way to return only results which does not include appended characters to order numbers.
For instance, below is a list of order numbers. I only want the order number that is SO-123456
OrderNumbers
SO-123456
SO-123456-01
SO-123456-2
SO-123457
SO-123457-1
SO-123457-02
SO-123458
I would like my query to only show the below results
SO-123456
SO-123457
SO-123458
What functions or query methods could achieve this?
I was hoping for something similar to RTRIM but that is only specific to white space.
I have a table that is riddled with weird characters. So far I have found an escape character for PDF files and a trademark sign. These characters are crashing my SSIS packages. I am able to remove these characters with an update script...
Update TABLE
set LEAD_NOTES__C = Replace(LEAD_NOTES__C, nchar(65533) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN2, '!');
Update TABLE
set LEAD_NOTES__C = Replace(LEAD_NOTES__C, nchar(1671) COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN2, '!');
This works fine, but my question is...
I would like to write a script that removes all foreign characters with the exception of the normal characters like (@,#,$,%,etc). I need a dynamic process that handles this so I am not losing time sifting through over 20,000 rows of data and changing my update script to remove a specific column. Although this method works, I would prefer a dynamic query. I intend to wrap this in a stored procedure that loops through all columns in a table (as parameter).
The issue being we have a category field that has Business;Client;Stuff. I would like to remove just the Business and leave the other stuff. Ive tried the link below and it removes everything..
update dbo.TBL_CONTACT
set CATEGORY = REPLACE(CATEGORY, 'Business', NULL)
TableA
Col1
----
13.4
13.4 a
13..4
13,.4
Result for Table A needed:
Col1 ColCalculated
--------------------------
13.4 13.4
13.4 a null
13..4 null
13,.4 null
how can I achieve it.
Hi
I am using nvarchar(MAX) string variable. But its length is maximum upto 8,000 charaters. But I want to assign 10,000 characters. So how can I get this.
Thanks
Is there a way to make a string field that has an unlimited amount of characters?
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I am trying to select the last 3 characters from a string. I am running into problems because the sting that I am selecting from are not the same amout of characters.
For example:
Item
abc145264
efg1254
wqx21456
How would I be able to select the last three characters from a list that could have more than 50 variations on the number of characters.
I tryed right(item, 3) but that does not work because all the lenghts are different. Any ideas?
I have a phone number string (416) 555-5555 in a table. I'd like to perform a search on the string so that the user is able to pass any number, and the query returns all phone numbers like it. What I'd like to do is to strip out the brackets and dashes and perform a like search.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHelloI want to write a stored procedure (using Enterprise Manager) that can grabthe digits that are inbetween the two dashes (-) in strings like:123-150-401-123-832-4215-61The digits to the left, right and inbetween the dashes could be any length,so a static "get the 5th, 6th and 7th digit" stored procedure won't work.Many thanks,--Chris Michaelwww.INTOmobiles.comDownload 100s of ringtones, wallpapers & logos every month for only £1.50per week
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In a extract that i have the SS# is as 123-45-6789 how do i remove the dashes in the string and have the final expression of 123456789.
thanks
Karen
Hi All,
I have one field with different values like
F1
A,B,C,
D,E
G,H,I,
My requirement is to remove the last comma from that string. I need the output should look like
F1
A,B,C
D,E
G,H,I
thanks,
Mears
How do I count the number of specific characters in a string ?
Example:
declare @var as varchar(50)
set @var="1abc1efg1"
If I wanted to count the "1"...I'll get "3" for answer.
This could maybe done by using a while loop, but is there any T-SQL command for this?????
I have the following string and am trying to select only the characters before the last "</>". How can I do this?
declare @String varchar(500)
set @String = '<p>Assessed By: Michael Jordan Yagnesh</p>
<p>Reviewed By: Fred Smith</p>
<p>Home Address</p>'
select REVERSE(substring(REVERSE(@String),5,charindex(':',REVERSE(@String))-5))Here is what I tried so far:
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I am trying to figure out how to pull only a certain character string.
orig string varies in length (Varchar 50)
ex: MID - Proposed - Prime
ex: MID - NotProposed - NotPrime
I want to keep the first 6 characters 'MID - '
as well as up to the 3rd SPACE (not including the space)
so
ex: MID - Proposed
ex: MID - NotProposed
I'm trying to search for commonly abbreviated company titles (ie limited, partnership, and so on). I would like to make my sql statement as short as possible (it's already quite lengthy as is). But I'm having trouble netting the abbreviated forms such as LTD and LMTD for limited (I have no control over the data I get, it comes from different counties with no standardization). I've tried using braketted strings like "L[I,IMI,M,]T[ED,D,]" and all other combinations I can think of, including using single quotes in the each string, and removing the empty placeholder and still can grab all instances.
Someone else's insight would be appreciated.
street_name
---------------------
1A HAYES ST
11a yONU STREET
i need to parse off watever is in front of the street_name. anyone
has any approach>?
street_name
-------------
HAYES ST
yonu street
Hi,Does anyone have a function which replaces accent chars from a stringwith the non-accented equivalent? For example 'hôpital' should return'hopital'.Thank you in advance.
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I have a column of string which has html tags attached to it. How can I remove them..other than manually going and doing it? Any funtions?
Thanks!!
Tanya