Removing Data that has alpha letters

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Removing Data that has alpha letters

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hbadministrator
Posting Yak Master

120 Posts

Posted - 2013-01-17 : 14:25:35

I have a field that has data with numbers that can very from 3 chars to 8 chars and some have letters in them. I want to eliminate that data from my selections.

example data
Field Name
ccode
1000
1000f
1002
1004f
12321412g
21334123h
1234512f

what is my WHERE statement

WHERE ccode....

Lamprey
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

4614 Posts

Posted - 2013-01-17 : 16:00:03

[code]DECLARE @Foo TABLE (Col VARCHAR(10))
INSERT @Foo
VALUES
('ccode'),
('1000'),
('1000f'),
('1002'),
('1004f'),
('12321412g'),
('21334123h'),
('1234512f')

-- NO values with a-z
SELECT *
FROM @Foo
WHERE Col NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%'

--OR, olny values that are 0-9
SELECT *
FROM @Foo
WHERE Col NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%'
[/code]

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