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Searching/Estracting numerical data

KR
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From: "KR" <kra...@bastyr.edu> - Find messages by this author
Date: 6 Feb 2006 13:48:00 -0800
Subject: Extract Number from Fields - SQL
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I am new to the SQL world, and I am trying to come up with a script
that will extract only the numerical data from a column of varchar
data type . There is not a pattern to the data entered, except that
the data that
I am looking to extract is a three digit number. If someone could
point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks in advance
KR

Feb 6 '06 #1
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KR (kr****@bastyr.edu) writes:
I am new to the SQL world, and I am trying to come up with a script
that will extract only the numerical data from a column of varchar
data type . There is not a pattern to the data entered, except that
the data that
I am looking to extract is a three digit number. If someone could
point me in the right direction that would be great.


SELECT cast(col as int) FROM tbl WHERE col LIKE '[0-9][0-9][0-9}'
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarskog.se

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Feb 6 '06 #2
On 6 Feb 2006 13:53:35 -0800, KR wrote:
KR
Feb 6, 1:48 pm show options

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From: "KR" <kra...@bastyr.edu> - Find messages by this author
Date: 6 Feb 2006 13:48:00 -0800
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I am new to the SQL world, and I am trying to come up with a script
that will extract only the numerical data from a column of varchar
data type . There is not a pattern to the data entered, except that
the data that
I am looking to extract is a three digit number. If someone could
point me in the right direction that would be great.


Hi KR,

The function you would use to find where a three digit sequence in
varchar data is located is

POSINDEX ('%[0-9][0-9][0-9]%', CharData)

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Hugo Kornelis, SQL Server MVP
Feb 6 '06 #3
Hugo Kornelis (hu**@perFact.REMOVETHIS.info.INVALID) writes:
The function you would use to find where a three digit sequence in
varchar data is located is

POSINDEX ('%[0-9][0-9][0-9]%', CharData)


patindex, you mean, n'est-ce pas?

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarskog.se

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Feb 6 '06 #4
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:19:18 +0000 (UTC), Erland Sommarskog wrote:
Hugo Kornelis (hu**@perFact.REMOVETHIS.info.INVALID) writes:
The function you would use to find where a three digit sequence in
varchar data is located is

POSINDEX ('%[0-9][0-9][0-9]%', CharData)


patindex, you mean, n'est-ce pas?


Ah, oui, c'est vrai!!

Thanks for the catch, Erland!

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Hugo Kornelis, SQL Server MVP
Feb 6 '06 #5
KR
Thanks much
KR

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