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SELECT Query with a consistent varchar format?

Asked by zeeshanbutt in Voice XML, MS SQL Server

Tags: SELECT QUERY, T-SQL, Varcharc, character formatting, string function

I have a table Product with a field called ProductID of nvarchar(50) data type. There are more than 151,000 records. The values look like as follows (example).

1
10
100
1000
10000-00719
10009-20050
1001
1-00149-00530
10029-31181
3-17-90710-02330
3-17-90710-02484
3-17-91710-02477

As you can see the format and length of the ProductID field is not very consistent. The length of characters in the ProductID varies from 1 to 16, and it occurs with a hyphen, or with two hyphen, or without a hyphen.

Now I want to have a SELECT query which get all the ProductID in the following format only.

XXXXXXXX-XXXXX

As you can see the output ProductID must have a total of 14 characters only; including one hyphen after the first 8 characters from left. If the original ProductID has less characters the SELECT should put leading zeros.

So some examples are;
a) the ProductID 1 should output as 00000000-00001
b) the ProductID 3-17-90710-02330 should output as 31790710-02330
c) the ProductID 10029-31181 should output as 00010029-31181
d) the ProductID 1-00149-00530 should output as 00100149-00530

How can I achieve this in a SELECT query? Please help.

Thanks a in advance for a quick help.

Zee

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SELECT Query with a consistent varchar format?

Asked by zeeshanbutt in Voice XML, MS SQL Server

Tags: SELECT QUERY, T-SQL, Varcharc, character formatting, string function

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