如何从字符串中删除所有非字母的字符?

非字母数字呢?

这必须是一个自定义函数还是也有更通用的解决方案?


当前回答

看过所有给出的解决方案后,我认为必须有一个纯SQL方法,它不需要函数或CTE / XML查询,并且不涉及难以维护的嵌套REPLACE语句。以下是我的解决方案:

SELECT 
  x
  ,CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 1, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 1, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 2, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 2, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 3, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 3, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 4, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 4, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 5, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 5, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 6, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 6, 1) END
-- Keep adding rows until you reach the column size 
    AS stripped_column
FROM (SELECT 
        column_to_strip AS x
        ,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' AS a 
      FROM my_table) a

这样做的好处是,有效字符包含在子查询中的一个字符串中,便于为不同的字符集重新配置。

缺点是您必须为每个字符添加一行SQL,直到您的列的大小。为了让这个任务更容易,我只是使用了下面的Powershell脚本,这个例子如果是VARCHAR(64):

1..64 | % {
  "    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, {0}, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, {0}, 1) END" -f $_
} | clip.exe

其他回答

这是另一个递归CTE解决方案,基于@Gerhard Weiss的回答。您应该能够将整个代码块复制并粘贴到SSMS中,并在那里使用它。结果包括一些额外的列,以帮助我们理解发生了什么。我花了一段时间才理解了PATINDEX (RegEx)和递归CTE的全部原理。

DECLARE @DefineBadCharPattern varchar(30)
SET @DefineBadCharPattern = '%[^A-z]%'  --Means anything NOT between A and z characters (according to ascii char value) is "bad"
SET @DefineBadCharPattern = '%[^a-z0-9]%'  --Means anything NOT between a and z characters or numbers 0 through 9 (according to ascii char value) are "bad"
SET @DefineBadCharPattern = '%[^ -~]%'  --Means anything NOT between space and ~ characters (all non-printable characters) is "bad"
--Change @ReplaceBadCharWith to '' to strip "bad" characters from string
--Change to some character if you want to 'see' what's being replaced. NOTE: It must be allowed accoring to @DefineBadCharPattern above
DECLARE @ReplaceBadCharWith varchar(1) = '#'  --Change this to whatever you want to replace non-printable chars with 
IF patindex(@DefineBadCharPattern COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN, @ReplaceBadCharWith) > 0
    BEGIN
        RAISERROR('@ReplaceBadCharWith value (%s) must be a character allowed by PATINDEX pattern of %s',16,1,@ReplaceBadCharWith, @DefineBadCharPattern)
        RETURN
    END
--A table of values to play with:
DECLARE @temp TABLE (OriginalString varchar(100))
INSERT @temp SELECT ' 1hello' + char(13) + char(10) + 'there' + char(30) + char(9) + char(13) + char(10)
INSERT @temp SELECT '2hello' + char(30) + 'there' + char(30)
INSERT @temp SELECT ' 3hello there'
INSERT @temp SELECT ' tab' + char(9) + ' character'
INSERT @temp SELECT 'good bye'

--Let the magic begin:
;WITH recurse AS (
    select
    OriginalString,
    OriginalString as CleanString,
    patindex(@DefineBadCharPattern COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN, OriginalString) as [Position],
    substring(OriginalString,patindex(@DefineBadCharPattern COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN, OriginalString),1) as [InvalidCharacter],
    ascii(substring(OriginalString,patindex(@DefineBadCharPattern COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN, OriginalString),1)) as [ASCIICode]
    from @temp
   UNION ALL
    select
    OriginalString,
    CONVERT(varchar(100),REPLACE(CleanString,InvalidCharacter,@ReplaceBadCharWith)),
    patindex(@DefineBadCharPattern COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN,CleanString) as [Position],
    substring(CleanString,patindex(@DefineBadCharPattern COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN,CleanString),1),
    ascii(substring(CleanString,patindex(@DefineBadCharPattern COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN,CleanString),1))
    from recurse
    where patindex(@DefineBadCharPattern COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN,CleanString) > 0
)
SELECT * FROM recurse
--optionally comment out this last WHERE clause to see more of what the recursion is doing:
WHERE patindex(@DefineBadCharPattern COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN,CleanString) = 0
DECLARE @vchVAlue NVARCHAR(255) = 'SWP, Lettering Position 1: 4 Ω, 2: 8 Ω, 3: 16 Ω, 4:  , 5:  , 6:  , Voltage Selector, Solder, 6, Step switch, : w/o fuseholder '


WHILE PATINDEX('%?%' , CAST(@vchVAlue AS VARCHAR(255))) > 0
  BEGIN
    SELECT @vchVAlue = STUFF(@vchVAlue,PATINDEX('%?%' , CAST(@vchVAlue AS VARCHAR(255))),1,' ')
  END 

SELECT @vchVAlue
CREATE FUNCTION remove_spc_char(@str VARCHAR(MAX))
  RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX) 
AS
BEGIN
  DECLARE @resp    VARCHAR(MAX) = '';
  DECLARE @str_val   VARCHAR(MAX) = UPPER(@str);
  DECLARE @i       INTEGER= 1;
  DECLARE @v_asc   INTEGER;
   WHILE @i <= (LEN(@str_val))
   BEGIN
     SET @v_asc = (ASCII(SUBSTRING(@str_val, @i, 1))) 
        BEGIN
        IF @v_asc in (192,193,194,195,196,65) 
            begin
                SET @v_asc = 65;
                SET @resp = concat(@resp, CHAR(@v_asc));
            end;
        IF @v_asc in (200,201,202,203,233,69)
            begin
                SET @v_asc = 69;
                SET @resp = concat(@resp, CHAR(@v_asc));
            end;
        IF @v_asc in (204,205,206,207,296,73)
            begin
                SET @v_asc = 73;
                SET @resp = concat(@resp, CHAR(@v_asc));
            end;
        IF @v_asc in (210,211,212,213,214,79)
            begin
                SET @v_asc = 79;
                SET @resp = concat(@resp, CHAR(@v_asc));
            end;
        IF @v_asc in (217,218,219,220,85)
            begin
                SET @v_asc = 85;
                SET @resp = concat(@resp, CHAR(@v_asc));
            end;
        IF @v_asc in (199,231,67)
            begin
                SET @v_asc = 67;
                SET @resp = concat(@resp, CHAR(@v_asc));
            end;
        IF @v_asc in (209,78)
            begin
                SET @v_asc = 78;
                SET @resp = concat(@resp, CHAR(@v_asc));
            end;
        IF @v_asc in (924,181,358,216,222,330,272,208,198,42,37,38,34,36,35,
64,33,39,41,40,43,61,95,45,62,60,63,47,176,183,124,166,174,359,248,254,
180,170,186,126,312,331,273,172,178,179,163,162,123,91,93,125,92,167,240,
223,230,171,187,169,185,168)
            begin
                SET @resp = concat(@resp, '');
            end;
        ELSE 
            begin
                if @v_asc not in (65,67,69,73,78,79,85)
                begin
                    SET @resp = concat(@resp, CHAR(@v_asc));
                end;
            end;
        END;
      SET @i = @i + 1
    END;
    RETURN @resp;
END;

乔治·马斯特罗斯精彩回答的参数化版本:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_StripCharacters]
(
    @String NVARCHAR(MAX), 
    @MatchExpression VARCHAR(255)
)
RETURNS NVARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
    SET @MatchExpression =  '%['+@MatchExpression+']%'
    
    WHILE PatIndex(@MatchExpression, @String) > 0
        SET @String = Stuff(@String, PatIndex(@MatchExpression, @String), 1, '')
    
    RETURN @String
    
END

字母只有:

SELECT dbo.fn_StripCharacters('a1!s2@d3#f4$', '^a-z')

数字只有:

SELECT dbo.fn_StripCharacters('a1!s2@d3#f4$', '^0-9')

字母数字只有:

SELECT dbo.fn_StripCharacters('a1!s2@d3#f4$', '^a-z0-9')

非字母数字:

SELECT dbo.fn_StripCharacters('a1!s2@d3#f4$', 'a-z0-9')

看过所有给出的解决方案后,我认为必须有一个纯SQL方法,它不需要函数或CTE / XML查询,并且不涉及难以维护的嵌套REPLACE语句。以下是我的解决方案:

SELECT 
  x
  ,CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 1, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 1, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 2, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 2, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 3, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 3, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 4, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 4, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 5, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 5, 1) END
    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, 6, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, 6, 1) END
-- Keep adding rows until you reach the column size 
    AS stripped_column
FROM (SELECT 
        column_to_strip AS x
        ,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' AS a 
      FROM my_table) a

这样做的好处是,有效字符包含在子查询中的一个字符串中,便于为不同的字符集重新配置。

缺点是您必须为每个字符添加一行SQL,直到您的列的大小。为了让这个任务更容易,我只是使用了下面的Powershell脚本,这个例子如果是VARCHAR(64):

1..64 | % {
  "    + CASE WHEN a NOT LIKE '%' + SUBSTRING(x, {0}, 1) + '%' THEN '' ELSE SUBSTRING(x, {0}, 1) END" -f $_
} | clip.exe