Remove tab,line feed and carriage return frome text field

By Harsha Majety, 2011/04/28

Replace [TextField] with your text/varchar column/variable

REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE([TextField], CHAR(9), ''), CHAR(10), ''), CHAR(13), '')

Useful when you want to compare strings and want to diregard tabs and new lines.

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Remove tab,line feed and carriage return frome text field

Replace

Replacing strings

Quick Replace

entire table replace ""

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