I have column with data like:
'2020193'
'3208391'
'1038291'
'9349203'
The data type is varchar and I can't change it to int (data managed in this datatype always).
I have some rows with trailing spaces like:
' 2222928'
' 3213331'
I need to remove that trailing space from start. I have tried SUBSTRING() or TRIM()/RTRIM()/LTRIM(), but didn't worked any of those.
select (rtrim(ltrim(doc_id))) from bpm.sales where len(doc_id) = 8
select left(doc_id,2) from bpm.sales where len(doc_id) = 8
select charindex(' ',doc_id) from bpm.sales where len(doc_id) = 8
Also, when I am trying to search the data like:
select doc_id from bpm.sales where doc_id = ' 2269203'
I am geting nothing where it exist in the column. With CHARINDEX() I got 0.
Can someone explain me this behaviour and suggest a solution?
You can get rid of everything up to the first character you do want:
select stuff(doc_id, 1, patindex('%[^0-9a-zA-Z]%', doc_id) - 1, '')
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So I need to filter column which contains either one, two or three whitespace character.
CREATE TABLE a
(
[col] [char](3) NULL,
)
and some inserts like
INSERT INTO a VALUES (' ',' ', ' ')
How do I get only the row with one white space?
Simply writing
SELECT *
FROM a
WHERE column = ' '
returns all rows irrespective of one or more whitespace character.
Is there a way to escape the space? Or search for specific number of whitespaces in column? Regex?
Use like clause - eg where column like '%[ ]%'
the brackets are important, like clauses provide a very limited version of regex. If its not enough, you can add a regex function written in C# to the DB and use that to check each row, but it won't be indexed and thus will be very slow.
The other alternative, if you need speed, is to look into full text search indexes.
Here is one approach you can take:
DECLARE #data table ( txt varchar(50), val varchar(50) );
INSERT INTO #data VALUES ( 'One Space', ' ' ), ( 'Two Spaces', ' ' ), ( 'Three Spaces', ' ' );
;WITH cte AS (
SELECT
txt,
DATALENGTH ( val ) - ( DATALENGTH ( REPLACE ( val, ' ', '' ) ) ) AS CharCount
FROM #data
)
SELECT * FROM cte WHERE CharCount = 1;
RETURNS
+-----------+-----------+
| txt | CharCount |
+-----------+-----------+
| One Space | 1 |
+-----------+-----------+
You need to use DATALENGTH as LEN ignores trailing blank spaces, but this is a method I have used before.
NOTE:
This example assumes the use of a varchar column.
Trailing spaces are often ignored in string comparisons in SQL Server. They are treated as significant on the LHS of the LIKE though.
To search for values that are exactly one space you can use
select *
from a
where ' ' LIKE col AND col = ' '
/*The second predicate is required in case col contains % or _ and for index seek*/
Note with your example table all the values will be padded out to three characters with trailing spaces anyway though. You would need a variable length datatype (varchar/nvarchar) to avoid this.
The advantage this has over checking value + DATALENGTH is that it is agnostic to how many bytes per character the string is using (dependant on datatype and collation)
DB Fiddle
How to get only rows with one space?
SELECT *
FROM a
WHERE col LIKE SPACE(1) AND col NOT LIKE SPACE(2)
;
Though this will only work for variable length datatypes.
Thanks guys for answering.
So I converted the char(3) column to varchar(3).
This seemed to work for me. It seems sql server has ansi padding that puts three while space in char(3) column for any empty or single space input. So any search or len or replace will take the padded value.
I have a very but tricky question for you guys. So, listen I have a field with spaces and numbers in one of my table columns. The key part is transform the content in a decimal field. The drawback is basically that for some rows I could get something like:
' 1584.00 '
' 156546'
'545.00 '
' '
So, to clean up my column, I have done a LTRIM and RTRIM so spaces gone. So now for a couple of records where the record were just spaces the new content is ''. Finally I need to convert this result to a decimal.
Issue: The thing is that for field that contend just the spaces the new result is '' and I'm not able to apply a REPLACE on this because it's a blank and the code below doesn't work:
SELECT REPLACE('','','0')
-- Final current verison
SELECT CAST(COALESCE(REPLACE(REPLACE([Gross_Weight],' ','0'),',',''),'0') AS DECIMAL(13,3))
How could I figure it out?
thanks so much
SELECT COALESCE(NULLIF(MyColumn, ''), 0)
This has the side-effect that you will also turn NULL values into 0, which you might not want. If that's a problem then a simple CASE statement should do the trick:
SELECT CASE WHEN MyColumn = '' THEN 0 ELSE CAST(MyColumn AS DECIMAL(10, 4)) END
Obviously you'll also have to incorporate any other manipulations that you're already doing.
No need for replace, just concatenate a zero to your column, like
SELECT RTRIM('0' + LTRIM(column))
I presume your data is in a table.
Lets call this table 'DATA' and the column 'VALUE'
Then you might use the below query
UPDATE DATA SET VALUE = 0 where VALUE = ''
To select the value do the below
select case ltrim(rtrim([Gross_Weight])) when ''
THEN 0
ELSE ltrim(rtrim([Gross_Weight])) END
Let me know if i get the requirement wrong.
I have a column with data zeros after 6th column
i want to remove the leading zero after the 6th pipe in the data.
Please let me know if there is any way to do it. I tried to use substr with Trim but its not working.
Let's say your column is called COL something like the following should work:
CONCAT(SUBSTR(1,INSTR(COL,'|', 1,5)), LTRIM(SUBSTR(INSTR(COL,'|', 1,5)+1)),'0'))
Assuming from your current data that you need to only replace every occurrence of |00 with |, You can achieve thing using REPLACE function.
SELECT 'TMB|MLE020828585|74384911WA3S|="''07300058"|74384911|0013' AS Current_String,
replace('TMB|MLE020828585|74384911WA3S|="''07300058"|74384911|0013', '|00', '|') AS result_String
You can replace hard-coded value in above with your column name.
The above query generate result as below.
Current_String | result_String
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TMB|MLE020828585|74384911WA3S|="'07300058"|74384911|0013 | TMB|MLE020828585|74384911WA3S|="'07300058"|74384911|13
Hope this will help.
Oleg was correct in utilizing INSTR(), that is how I would do it. He was missing some arguments, though. Also, I wasn't able to get ltrim to work, so I cast it to an int instead. I tested and updated my table with your data using:
UPDATE mytable
SET mycolumn = Substr(mycolumn , 1, Instr(mycolumn , '|', 1, 5))
|| CAST(Substr(mycolumn , Instr(mycolumn , '|', 1, 5) + 1) AS INT)
Given data in a column which look like this:
00001 00
00026 00
I need to use SQL to remove anything after the space and all leading zeros from the values so that the final output will be:
1
26
How can I best do this?
Btw I'm using DB2
This was tested on DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows and z/OS.
You can use the LOCATE() function in DB2 to find the character position of the first space in a string, and then send that to SUBSTR() as the end location (minus one) to get only the first number of the string. Casting to INT will get rid of the leading zeros, but if you need it in string form, you can CAST again to CHAR.
SELECT CAST(SUBSTR(col, 1, LOCATE(' ', col) - 1) AS INT)
FROM tab
In DB2 (Express-C 9.7.5) you can use the SQL standard TRIM() function:
db2 => CREATE TABLE tbl (vc VARCHAR(64))
DB20000I The SQL command completed successfully.
db2 => INSERT INTO tbl (vc) VALUES ('00001 00'), ('00026 00')
DB20000I The SQL command completed successfully.
db2 => SELECT TRIM(TRIM('0' FROM vc)) AS trimmed FROM tbl
TRIMMED
----------------------------------------------------------------
1
26
2 record(s) selected.
The inner TRIM() removes leading and trailing zero characters, while the outer trim removes spaces.
This worked for me on the AS400 DB2.
The "L" stands for Leading.
You can also use "T" for Trailing.
I am assuming the field type is currently VARCHAR, do you need to store things other than INTs?
If the field type was INT, they would be removed automatically.
Alternatively, to select the values:
SELECT (CAST(CAST Col1 AS int) AS varchar) AS Col1
I found this thread for some reason and find it odd that no one actually answered the question. It seems that the goal is to return a left adjusted field:
SELECT
TRIM(L '0' FROM SUBSTR(trim(col) || ' ',1,LOCATE(' ',trim(col) || ' ') - 1))
FROM tab
One option is implicit casting: SELECT SUBSTR(column, 1, 5) + 0 AS column_as_number ...
That assumes that the structure is nnnnn nn, ie exactly 5 characters, a space and two more characters.
Explicit casting, ie SUBSTR(column,1,5)::INT is also a possibility, but exact syntax depends on the RDBMS in question.
Use the following to achieve this when the space location is variable, or even when it's fixed and you want to make a more robust query (in case it moves later):
SELECT CAST(SUBSTR(LTRIM('00123 45'), 1, CASE WHEN LOCATE(' ', LTRIM('00123 45')) <= 1 THEN LEN('00123 45') ELSE LOCATE(' ', LTRIM('00123 45')) - 1 END) AS BIGINT)
If you know the column will always contain a blank space after the start:
SELECT CAST(LOCATE(LTRIM('00123 45'), 1, LOCATE(' ', LTRIM('00123 45')) - 1) AS BIGINT)
both of these result in:
123
so your query would
SELECT CAST(SUBSTR(LTRIM(myCol1), 1, CASE WHEN LOCATE(' ', LTRIM(myCol1)) <= 1 THEN LEN(myCol1) ELSE LOCATE(' ', LTRIM(myCol1)) - 1 END) AS BIGINT)
FROM myTable1
This removes any content after the first space character (ignoring leading spaces), and then converts the remainder to a 64bit integer which will then remove all leading zeroes.
If you want to keep all the numbers and just remove the leading zeroes and any spaces you can use:
SELECT CAST(REPLACE('00123 45', ' ', '') AS BIGINT)
While my answer might seem quite verbose compared to simply SELECT CAST(SUBSTR(myCol1, 1, 5) AS BIGINT) FROM myTable1 but it allows for the space character to not always be there, situations where the myCol1 value is not of the form nnnnn nn if the string is nn nn then the convert to int will fail.
Remember to be careful if you use the TRIM function to remove the leading zeroes, and actually in all situations you will need to test your code with data like 00120 00 and see if it returns 12 instead of the correct value of 120.
Using T-SQL, how would I go about getting the last 3 characters of a varchar column?
So the column text is IDS_ENUM_Change_262147_190 and I need 190
SELECT RIGHT(column, 3)
That's all you need.
You can also do LEFT() in the same way.
Bear in mind if you are using this in a WHERE clause that the RIGHT() can't use any indexes.
You can use either way:
SELECT RIGHT(RTRIM(columnName), 3)
OR
SELECT SUBSTRING(columnName, LEN(columnName)-2, 3)
Because more ways to think about it are always good:
select reverse(substring(reverse(columnName), 1, 3))
declare #newdata varchar(30)
set #newdata='IDS_ENUM_Change_262147_190'
select REVERSE(substring(reverse(#newdata),0,charindex('_',reverse(#newdata))))
=== Explanation ===
I found it easier to read written like this:
SELECT
REVERSE( --4.
SUBSTRING( -- 3.
REVERSE(<field_name>),
0,
CHARINDEX( -- 2.
'<your char of choice>',
REVERSE(<field_name>) -- 1.
)
)
)
FROM
<table_name>
Reverse the text
Look for the first occurrence of a specif char (i.e. first occurrence FROM END of text). Gets the index of this char
Looks at the reversed text again. searches from index 0 to index of your char. This gives the string you are looking for, but in reverse
Reversed the reversed string to give you your desired substring
if you want to specifically find strings which ends with desired characters then this would help you...
select * from tablename where col_name like '%190'