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arifliminto86
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7 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-06 : 19:40:17

hi all, i am still a newbie in sql

i got a problem with my query

for example:
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DECLARE @LongString VARCHAR(10)
@LongString = "Hello-Word"
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i want to change the LongString value by removing the "-" however i i need to identify if the @longString got "-" and delete it if it found how do i do that in sql

Thanks a lot guys

arifliminto86

hey001us
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185 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-06 : 20:53:32

select replace('Hello-Word','-','')

hey

jackv
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2179 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-07 : 09:59:02

DECLARE @LongString VARCHAR(10)
SET @LongString = 'Hello-Word'

select replace(@LongString,'-',' ')

Note the ' ' in the replace , as opposed to '' , as this would cause 'HelloWord'

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arifliminto86
Starting Member

7 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-07 : 10:18:55

thanks it solved

arifliminto86

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