I had to migrate data from old system to new system and I found that we have one field called ‘comments’ having contact details of the customers. The next stage was to extract the numbers (Contact details) from string (Comments column).
We can develop this solution via cursor as well but I developed it without cursor.
Given below is the solution.
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.[UDF_Extract_Numbers_From_String]
(
@String VARCHAR(MAX) -- Variable for string
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
BEGIN
DECLARE @RETURN_STRING VARCHAR(MAX)
;WITH N1 (n) AS (SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1),
N2 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM N1 AS X, N1 AS Y),
N3 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM N2 AS X, N2 AS Y),
N4 (n) AS (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY X.n)
FROM N3 AS X, N3 AS Y)
SELECT @RETURN_STRING=ISNULL(@RETURN_STRING,'')+ SUBSTRING(@String,Nums.n,1)
FROM N4 Nums
WHERE Nums.n<=LEN(@String) AND PATINDEX('%[0-9.+-]%',SUBSTRING(@String,Nums.n,1))>0
RETURN @RETURN_STRING
END
GO
SELECT dbo.UDF_Extract_Numbers_From_String
('Mobile No +49 4879 17835 is activated') as [Numbers]
GO
SELECT dbo.UDF_Extract_Numbers_From_String
('New Fax No is +2-213-8764243') as [Numbers]
--RESULT
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