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    <p>I have a column named Address in a table. I have values such as</p> <pre><code>12-15 Hardley Street 2A-C Hardley Street A-2c Hardley Street A-B Hardley Street </code></pre> <p>I am required to keep the hyphen(-) intact in the first three rows.</p> <p>i.e. If there is a number in the word that contains the hyphen(-), I should keep it, else I should replace with a space.</p> <p>So the column should be replaced as below</p> <pre><code>12-15 Hardley Street 2A-C Hardley Street A-2c Hardley Street A B Hardley Street </code></pre> <p>My small brain cannot comprehend this. Any help pls.</p> <p>p.s: I would also like to add that it is not necessary that the first word will contain the hyphen.</p> <p>The data can be as </p> <pre><code>Hardley Street 2A-C </code></pre> <p>or</p> <pre><code>2A-C </code></pre> <p>Thanks one and all for your reply and comments.</p> <p>There has been one more pre-requisite, I am supposed to do in an update query.</p> <pre><code>declare @data nvarchar(200) set @data='12-12 ORANGE-RED' select @data= case left(@data,charindex(' ',@data)) when '' then CASE PATINDEX ('%[0-9]%',@data) when 0 then replace(@data,'-',' ') else @data END else CASE PATINDEX ('%[0-9]%',left(@data,charindex(' ',@data))) when 0 then replace(left(@data,charindex(' ',@data)),'-',' ')+'-- LEFT MOST WORD REPLACE' else CASE charindex (' ',substring(@data,charindex(' ',@data)+1,len(@data))) WHEN 0 THEN CASE PATINDEX ('%[0-9]%',substring(@data,charindex(' ',@data)+1,len(@data))) when 0 then left(@data,charindex(' ',@data))+ replace(substring(@data,charindex(' ',@data)+1,len(@data)),'-',' ') +'--RIGHT MOST REPLACE' else @data + '--struggling here' END END END end where @data like '%-%' select @data </code></pre> <p>I have tried the above I will be updating the table as</p> <pre><code>update tblname set @columnName= --lines of coding where @columnName like '%-%' </code></pre> <p>I am not able to solve this, and to add to my woes, the data will be inconsistent.</p> <p>I assumed the data to be of two words, such as</p> <pre><code>2A-C Hardley Street A-2c Hardley Street A B Hardley Street </code></pre> <p>But the client said that he will be having data as</p> <pre><code> Hardley Street 22-23 BO'NESS A-2c Hardley Street Hardley Street 12B Stratford-upon-avon </code></pre> <p>I cannot create a function, the reason being we are going to update a table and format it. If I create a function that I should call it for every other row, which is time consuming.</p> <p>Kindly do not suggest SSIS as that has already been ruled out.</p> <p>Any ideas will be very helpful.</p>
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    1. COIf you post code or data sample or XML, **please** highlight those lines in the text editor and click on the "code" button (101 010) on the editor toolbar to nicely format and syntax highlight it!
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    3. COIt would be useful next time when you post questions, to be as detailed as possible. You keep adding pre-requisites and limitations. Using a function to do the job is not as taxing as you may think, but of course you didn't specify how big the table is. I suggest you looking into PAF-ing and address formatting if your table is huge, there are companies that specialize in this (I won't post names here, that would be advertising).
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