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rajsqlteam
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Posted - 02/28/2013 :  11:48:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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.

James K
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Posted - 02/28/2013 :  12:01:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
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
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Posted - 02/28/2013 :  12:37:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1007697/how-to-strip-all-non-alphabetic-characters-from-string-in-sql-server
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