Is there an "easy" way to do this?

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Is there an "easy" way to do this?

cory.bullard76

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August 2, 2016 at 10:57 am

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Hello, I consider myself to be decent at SQL....I don't use it as much anymore. I have a column of data that I only want to pull the ID from. The field is called BODY. It contains:
Discontinued Rx # 0011122657 via Prescription File
I just want to pull 0011122657
is that doable?

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J Livingston SQL SSC Guru Points: 51550 More actions · Answer 1

cory.bullard76 (8/2/2016)
Hello, I consider myself to be decent at SQL....I don't use it as much anymore. I have a column of data that I only want to pull the ID from. The field is called BODY. It contains:
Discontinued Rx # 0011122657 via Prescription File
I just want to pull 0011122657
is that doable?

there are several ways this can be achieved, but given the single row example you provided, its hard to suggest what is correct.

can you please post some more representative sample data.

eg

need to know if digits are always the same length

need to know if digits are always in the same position

need to know if digits are always preceeded by #

yadda

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cory.bullard76 Ten Centuries Points: 1232 More actions · Answer 2

Sorry....yes to all of your questions. All of the data looks just like the example

J Livingston SQL SSC Guru Points: 51550 More actions · Answer 3

maybe

DECLARE @STR VARCHAR(100) = 'Discontinued Rx # 0011122657 via Prescription File'

SELECT SUBSTRING(@str,19,10)

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Michael L John One Orange Chip Points: 27056 More actions · Answer 4

cory.bullard76 (8/2/2016)
Sorry....yes to all of your questions. All of the data looks just like the example

In that case:

SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(FieldName, 'Discontinued Rx #', '') 'via Prescription File', ''), ' ', '')

Michael L John
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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 5

Going further on J Livingston's formula.

DECLARE @STR VARCHAR(100) = 'Discontinued Rx # 0011122657 via Prescription File'

SELECT SUBSTRING(@str,19,10) AS FixedLength_FixedPos,

SUBSTRING(@str,PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@str),10) AS FixedLength_VarPos,

SUBSTRING(@str,19,PATINDEX('%[0-9] %',@str)-18) AS VarLength_FixedPos,

SUBSTRING(@str,PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@str),PATINDEX('%[0-9] %',@str)-PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@str) + 1) AS VarLength_VarPos

Luis C.
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August 2, 2016 at 12:16 pm

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