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peace
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

420 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 03:26:29

how can i only get from the column '12345'?
but some of the data has smaller room number.

ROOMCOLUMN
the majestic room 12345
the majestic room 123
the majestic room 1
the majestic room 1459

result should be as below:
ROOMCOLUMN
12345
123
1
1459

waterduck
Aged Yak Warrior

982 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 03:45:05

DECLARE @foo TABLE(ROOMCOLUMN VARCHAR(50))
INSERT INTO @foo VALUES
('the majestic room 12345'),
('the majestic room 123'),
('the majestic room 1'),
('the majestic room 1459')

SELECT *, STUFF(ROOMCOLUMN, 1, 18, '')
FROM @foo

peace
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

420 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 03:48:11

i will still get the rest of the data..

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 04:02:52

[code]
SELECT STUFF(ROOMCOLUMN, 1, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',ROOMCOLUMN)-1, '')
FROM @foo
[/code]

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peace
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

420 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 04:19:29

not possible to use charindex or substring?
because some of the data has like this:

the majestic room 12345 reference 10

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 04:32:10

quote:
Originally posted by peace

not possible to use charindex or substring?
because some of the data has like this:

the majestic room 12345 reference 10

First tell us what all formats data can come. Then we can think of a generic approach to get you the required data

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peace
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

420 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 04:45:52

this is the data.
I only want the room number.

ROOMCOLUMN
the majestic room 12345
the majestic room 123
the majestic room 1
the majestic room 1459
the majestic room 123444 reference 10 block
the majestic room 4535 reference 15 block

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 05:08:09

assuming no other formats being present, you can use below


SELECT LEFT(STUFF(ROOMCOLUMN, 1, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',ROOMCOLUMN)-1, ''),CHARINDEX(' ',STUFF(ROOMCOLUMN, 1, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',ROOMCOLUMN)-1, '')+ ' ')-1)
FROM @foo

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peace
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

420 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 05:14:50

got it.
is working fine.
thanks!

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-16 : 05:18:54

welcome

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