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vs.satheesh

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September 24, 2013 at 3:35 am

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Dear All
I have one scnario. One column i am having Following records
1a
2a
2b
...
.
.
.
.
10a
10b
But i want following output through Query
1
2
2
.
.
.
.
10
10
.

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Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 1

Not much information to go on.

Is it only a and b in the column, or are there other characters present?

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Hunchback SSCrazy Points: 2649 More actions · Answer 2

You can use some of the string functions like CHARINDEX, PATINDEX, LEFT, SUBSTRING, etc.

Try to find the first non numeric character and extract the substring from the beginning to this position.

SELECT

T.c1,

CASE WHEN R.c1 > 1 THEN SUBSTRING(T.c1, 1, R.c1 - 1) ELSE T.c1 END AS c2

FROM

(VALUES ('1a'), ('10a'), ('110a'), ('220')) AS T(c1)

CROSS APPLY

(VALUES (PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', T.c1))) AS R(c1);

OTF SSCertifiable Points: 6104 More actions · Answer 3

You'll have to play around with the String Functions to get what you want.

Maybe...

SELECT REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE('1a'), 2, LEN('1a')));

SQL and Strings... not exactly a match made in heaven.

Dwain Camps SSC Guru Points: 86948 More actions · Answer 4

hunchback (9/24/2013)
You can use some of the string functions like CHARINDEX, PATINDEX, LEFT, SUBSTRING, etc.
Try to find the first non numeric character and extract the substring from the beginning to this position.
SELECT
T.c1,
CASE WHEN R.c1 > 1 THEN SUBSTRING(T.c1, 1, R.c1 - 1) ELSE T.c1 END AS c2
FROM
(VALUES ('1a'), ('10a'), ('110a'), ('220')) AS T(c1)
CROSS APPLY
(VALUES (PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', T.c1))) AS R(c1);

Mighty convoluted of you to use 2 table row constructors like that but I like it. 🙂

Borrowing the one with your sample data, I'll offer another option that is described in the 4th link in my signature.

SELECT a.c1, b.Item

FROM

(

VALUES ('1a'), ('10a'), ('110a'), ('220')

) AS a(c1)

CROSS APPLY dbo.PatternSplitCM(a.C1, '[0-9]') b

WHERE [Matched]=1;

Probably not as fast as hunchback's but that's because it's a more generalized tool.

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ccavaco Old Hand Points: 302 More actions · Answer 5

SELECT REPLACE('2b',SUBSTRING('2b',PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%','2b'),1), '')

sribe SSC-Addicted Points: 421 More actions · Answer 6

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September 26, 2013 at 10:04 am

#1653649

SELECT LEFT('21b',len('21b')-1)