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• The_SQL_DBA

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  September 5, 2008 at 8:36 am

  #123349

  I have a column from two records in the database that look like the following:

  PC 20020708

  PC 20020201,L 20020201,H 20020201

  Respectively I want them to look like:

  P 20020708, C 20020708

  P 20020201, C 20020201, L 20020201, H 200201

  What I can’t figure out is how to say the replace equivalent of what you could do in a like:

  Replace(strLinesDate, ‘PC ________’, newtext);

  Where it replaces PC, the space, and then the next 8 characters with the expanded text. I have a solution for getting the expanded text, just can’t figure out how to get the proper value to be replaced.

  Any ideas guys?

  The_SQL_DBA
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• ChrisM@Work

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  September 5, 2008 at 8:52 am

  #867831

  Something like this?

  [font="Courier New"]SELECT CASE WHEN LEFT(strLinesDate, 2) = 'PC'

     THEN REPLACE(strLinesDate,

         LEFT(strLinesDate, 11),

         'P  ' + SUBSTRING(strLinesDate,4,8) + ', ' + 'C  ' + SUBSTRING(strLinesDate,4,8))

     ELSE strLinesDate END AS strLinesDate

  FROM (

  SELECT 'PC 20020708' AS strLinesDate UNION ALL

  SELECT 'PC 20020201, L  20020201, H  20020201'

  ) d[/font]

  Cheers

  ChrisM

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