Re: Strip list of characters from a field using SQL

[Marc Couture <couturem@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luis,

I would rather prefer which characters i would like to extract...

I.e. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. And drop all others characters.

Thanks.

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On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:52, "Luis Rodriguez" <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Marc,
>
> Using REPLACE? Something like:
>
> REPLACE(myfield, '/', '')
>
> HTH,
>
> Luis Rodriguez
> IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Marc Couture <couturem@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Possible stripping list of characters from a field using SQL ?
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > Marc/Couture.          Result = MarcCouture
> >
> > Regards,
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