Format column

• pzmrcd

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  June 3, 2008 at 4:40 pm

  #187344

  Hi

  I am trying to format a col (phone) in a table (prob thru a UDF).

  from 1234567890 to 123-456-7890.

  Any help

  Thanks

• Jeffrey Williams

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  June 3, 2008 at 5:05 pm

  #823916

  Here is one way (of many):

  Declare @len int;

  Declare @value varchar(10);

  --Set @value = '4567890';

  Set @value = '1234567890';

  Set @len = len(@value);

  Select @value, stuff(stuff(right('000' + @value, 10), 7, 0, '-'), 4, 0, '-');

  Jeff

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