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• sunandas

  Old Hand

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  May 20, 2008 at 12:34 am

  #186784

  Hi,

  Can I replacea a range of letters or numbers from a string?

  For example

  I want to replace the string 'sdekwexnm123486' with

  '000000000123486'

  How can I do it?

  Please help me out.

• Gail Shaw

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  May 20, 2008 at 12:38 am

  #817593

  Look up the REPLACE function in books online.

  Gail Shaw
  Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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• Prasad Bhogadi

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  May 20, 2008 at 6:19 am

  #817785

  sunandas (5/20/2008)

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  Hi,

  Can I replacea a range of letters or numbers from a string?

  For example

  I want to replace the string 'sdekwexnm123486' with

  '000000000123486'

  How can I do it?

  Please help me out.

  CREATE TABLE #Temp

  (MyColumn VARCHAR(50))

  GO

  INSERT INTO #Temp

  VALUES('MyReplaceMentsdekwexnm123486')

  GO

  SELECT REPLACE(MyColumn,'sdekwexnm123486','000000000123486') FROM #Temp

  GO

  DROP TABLE #Temp

  GO

  Prasad Bhogadi
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