Replacing multiple spaces in a string using T-SQL
December 17, 2008 8:47 AM Subscribe
Please help me find the T-SQL that removes duplicate spaces within a string (or suggest your own method).
I swear I found a few months ago a T-SQL snippet that removes duplicate spaces within a string. For example:
becomes
The solution I thought I saw used a three or four nested
I know I could do something like
but the
I swear I found a few months ago a T-SQL snippet that removes duplicate spaces within a string. For example:
1 2 3 4 5 6
becomes
1 2 3 4 5 6
The solution I thought I saw used a three or four nested
replace calls, which replaced some of the spaces with a ^ and eventually replaced the ^ with an empty string.I know I could do something like
while charindex(' ', @string) > 0
begin
set @string = replace(@string, ' ', ' ')
end
but the
replace method was pretty clever (and maybe faster?). I swear I saw it on AskMe, but I can't find it and my Google searches fail. Anyone know what I'm talking about, or know of a faster, better, cheaper method? Thanks!This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by jepler at 9:27 AM on December 17, 2008