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brendanb
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 Posted - 2013-11-11 : 19:29:10
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| Hi,I have for example a phone number field that has a multitude of characters I want to strip out so I can do a comparison on a query. Does SQL have any built in REGEX functions?I know I could do REPLACE(X,' ', ''), but this seems like a bad way to have to handle various characters. Like for example I could have a Space, Pipe, or some other characterregardsBrendan |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2013-11-12 : 01:46:06
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| you can write a CLR procedure for that. .NET has regexmatch function.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/https://www.facebook.com/VmBlogs |
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visakh16
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REGEX or REPLACE