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Originally posted by sql-programmers

Hi,

This may help you,

create function dbo.RemoveSpecialChars (@s varchar(256)) returns varchar(256)
with schemabinding
begin
if @s is null
return null
declare @s2 varchar(256)
set @s2 = ''
declare @l int
set @l = len(@s)
declare @p int
set @p = 1
while @p <= @l begin
declare @c int
set @c = ascii(substring(@s, @p, 1))
if @c between 48 and 57 or @c between 65 and 90 or @c between 97 and 122
set @s2 = @s2 + char(@c)
set @p = @p + 1
end
if len(@s2) = 0
return null
return @s2
end

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Originally posted by sql-programmers

Another one function to remove special characters.


CREATE FUNCTION [FN_REMOVE_SPECIAL_CHARACTER] (
@INPUT_STRING varchar(300))
RETURNS VARCHAR(300)
AS
BEGIN

--declare @testString varchar(100),
DECLARE @NEWSTRING VARCHAR(100)
-- set @teststring = '@san?poojari(darsh)'
SET @NEWSTRING = @INPUT_STRING ;
With SPECIAL_CHARACTER as
(
SELECT '>' as item
UNION ALL
SELECT '<' as item
UNION ALL
SELECT '(' as item
UNION ALL
SELECT ')' as item
UNION ALL
SELECT '!' as item
UNION ALL
SELECT '?' as item
UNION ALL
SELECT '@' as item
UNION ALL
SELECT '*' as item
UNION ALL
SELECT '%' as item
UNION ALL
SELECT '$' as item
)
SELECT @NEWSTRING = Replace(@NEWSTRING, ITEM, '') FROM SPECIAL_CHARACTER
return @NEWSTRING
END
select dbo.[FN_REMOVE_SPECIAL_CHARACTER] ('@s()antosh')



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