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Hi sqldev,If all records in your table are numeric then I guess the simplest solution is:SELECT col=CONVERT(Int, col)FROM #t1This one will also not remove the trailing 0's, like REPLACE...
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sure Brad, but how about if there are spaces at the end like ' 0001700 ' in this case it will not workUnderstood... but he only mentioned leading spaces and zeroes.You're right... if he had to...
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sure Brad, but how about if there are spaces at the end like ' 0001700 ' in this case it will not work
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A bit tricky...Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. (c) by Donald Knuth Naomi Nosonovsky, Sr. Programmer-Analyst My blog
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brad it will fail in case there is zero at the end like '00001700'No it won't... try it!(I only did a LTRIM... I did NOT do an RTRIM, so those ending zeroes will be restored by the second...
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SELECT * FROM #t1 select case when FirstNumberPosition > 0 then substring(col,FirstNumberPosition, LEN(col)) else col end from ( select patindex('%[1-9]%',col) as FirstNumberPosition, col from #t1)...
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declare @String varchar(30) set @String = ' 00001705' select case when FirstNumberPosition > 0 then substring(@String,FirstNumberPosition, LEN(@String)) else @String end from ( select...
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Here's one way...SELECT REPLACE(LTRIM(REPLACE(Col,'0',' ')),' ','0')FROM #T1That will first replace all zeroes with a space, then do the LTRIM, then replace all the spaces with zeroes again.--Brad (My...
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I have data in my table with leading spaces and then zero's. I want to trim the leading spaces and even the zero's and just grab the rest of the number. Below is sample dataCreate table #t1(col...
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