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nelsont
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Posted - 12/06/2012 :  17:43:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I know how to escape individual wildcard characters when doing a search using 'like'. I need to search a column in a table using a string that is input from the user that may contain one or many wildcard characters.

Other than surrounding the incoming string with Replace commands for each possible wildcard, is there an easier way to do this?

srujanavinnakota
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Posted - 12/06/2012 :  19:08:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Try CHARINDEX
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visakh16
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Posted - 12/07/2012 :  08:12:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
why do you need separate REPLACE statements? wont a single REPLACE be enough for all wildcard characters?

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nelsont
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Posted - 12/08/2012 :  23:46:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Can either of you show at least a simple example?
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DonAtWork
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Posted - 12/10/2012 :  10:41:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote 

declare @yak varchar(20)

select @yak = 'sier*#@kjf(*#@$ljh'

select @yak

While PatIndex('%[!@#$%^&*()]%', @yak) > 0
    Set @yak = Stuff(@yak, PatIndex('%[!@#$%^&*()]%', @yak), 1, '')

select @yak









How to ask: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/05/25/5276.aspx
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