curious_sqldba (3/4/2014)

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Sean Lange (3/4/2014)

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curious_sqldba (3/4/2014)

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Jack Corbett (3/4/2014)

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Issues with different white space characters is a pain. You just need to use the CHAR/NCHAR function in the REPLACE, like this:

DECLARE @data NVARCHAR(MAX) = 'EXEC Proc_gen' + CHAR(9) + '@PsID=12, @kID=-1, @ID=3183';

SELECT @data AS theData ,

REPLACE(CHAR(9), REPLACE(@data, ' ', '')) AS dataNoSpaces;

This one does both the Tab and the space.

The replace function requires 3 argument(s).

Easy enough.

DECLARE @data NVARCHAR(MAX) = 'EXEC Proc_gen' + CHAR(9) + '@PsID=12, @kID=-1, @ID=3183';

SELECT @data AS theData ,

REPLACE(CHAR(9), REPLACE(@data, ' ', ''), '') AS dataNoSpaces;

That makes me wonder. If you can't figure that out do you understand what this is doing?

Well, i actually copied first portion of your first reply and then copied bottom half from second reply, so yeah that's why i was getting wrong result. I should have given more details.

I have 500 records each record is like the one i gave in example, and each space is a tab delimited, there can more than one tab delimited in each record.