How do I Eliminate Carriage Return in Select Query

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How do I Eliminate Carriage Return in Select Query

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dwalker79
Yak Posting Veteran

54 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-29 : 13:55:57

Can someone please help me. The tu.Comment field in this query is text data type. Currently the tu.Comment field contains carriage returns and line feeds. How can I eliminate the carriage returns and line feeds from this query?

SELECT vi.status
, vi.stock_#
, vi.client_unit_#
, vi.vin
, tu.Update_Date
, tu.comment
, tu.User_ID
, ra.Recovery_ID
, ra.Recovery_Agents
, ra.City
, ra.State
, ra.Zip
From Vehicle_Inventory vi
Inner Join T_Updates tu
on vi.stock_#=tu.stock_#
Inner Join Update_type ut
on tu.update_type=ut.Update_Nbr
Inner Join Repo_Agents ra
on vi.recovery_id=ra.recovery_id
Where (Datediff(d,tu.update_date,getdate())<1) And vi.customer_#='10175' and tu.update_type<>'51'

Thank You!

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-29 : 14:11:18

http://www.sqlteam.com/article/search-and-replace-in-a-text-column

dwalker79
Yak Posting Veteran

54 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-29 : 14:21:47

This doesn't exactly give me what I need. I need to be able to run this exact query and eliminate the carriage returns and line feeds in the Comments field in the output. Can I use the Replace function if I somehow cast the text field to a varchar?

DonAtWork
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2167 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-29 : 14:27:06

Where are you presenting the data? Formatting should be done in your presentation layer.

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dwalker79
Yak Posting Veteran

54 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-29 : 14:32:16

I checked with the application developer and they are using a .Net export application to produce the output .txt file. They wanted to see if there was a way to change this in the sql query without having to modify the format on their end. Is this possible?

dwalker79
Yak Posting Veteran

54 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-29 : 14:55:24

I think I may have figured it out with the following syntax:
replace ( replace(cast(tu.Comment as varchar (8000)), char(10), ''), char(13), ' ')

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