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rajsqlteam
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Posted - 2013-02-28 : 11:48:36
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Hello Guys,I am trying to remove all non alphanumeric characters before displaying it in a column. I am using REPLACE function to remove special characters and replace with none. This is tedious as we have many special characters.Can somebody suggest me more brief way to replace special characters with nothing?Thanks in advance. |
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James K
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2013-02-28 : 12:01:01
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Unfortunately T-SQL string functions have nothing better to offer. If it supported regular expressions, it would be a much easier. So the only alternatives available currently are to either do it the painful way which you are doing, or to use a CLR function (which then can use all the features including the RegEx class in .Net). |
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Lamprey
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2013-02-28 : 12:37:31
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1007697/how-to-strip-all-non-alphabetic-characters-from-string-in-sql-server |
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