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Message Posted: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 @ 11:52:06 GMT


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Subj:		Re: How to remove 'spaces' in a telephone number field using Teradata SQL

From:		Dieter Noeth

Mike Grant wrote:

I need to be able to get rid of 'spaces' in a telephone number field using Teradata SQL is there a function to allow this? The spaces could be in any position within the 11 character field? I've found the 'trim' function but this only removes trailing and leading blanks?

example before: 01234 56789 after 0123456789.

Only one blank?

select
   case
     when position(' ' in phone) > 0
     then substring(phone from 1 for position(' ' in phone) -1)
       || substring(phone from position(' ' in phone)  + 1)
     else phone
   end

But this gets quite ugly, if there may be more than a single blank...

Dieter