Removing white space

• Mark Green-451799

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  November 23, 2007 at 7:31 am

  #184333

  How do I remove white space when selecting a string using a select statement?

• Ramesh Saive

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  November 23, 2007 at 7:47 am

  #753637

  SELECT REPLACE( SomeColumn, SPACE(1), '' ) FROM SomeTable

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• Johan Bijnens

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  November 23, 2007 at 8:04 am

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  or if you only want to trim leading or trailing spaces you can use :

  SELECT RTRIM(LTRIM(mycol))

  FROM myobject

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