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From:Leigh Sharpe Date:July 3 2007 2:45am
Subject:Stripping whitespace from a select
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Hi All,
 I have a table which contains phone numbers. I want to extract these
phone numbers in a common format, but they have not been entered the
same way. Is there any easy way of removing whitespace and brackets in
one go? The best I can come up with so far is this rather ugly one:
 
SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(phone_work,"(",""),")", "" ), "
", "" ),"-","") FROM contacts WHERE phone_work!="";
 
Which will remove all "(", ")", "-", and spaces. Suerly there's a better
way?
 
Regards,
             Leigh
 
Leigh Sharpe
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