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remove noise from text strings using TRANSLATE
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| -- Lets say I have this character data, how do I extract the numeric? | |
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| -- Q: Library . . . . . . : SYSIBM Number of objects . : 65 | |
| -- A: Use the TRANSLATE built-in function to convert all the noise characters to blanks | |
| values bigint( | |
| translate( | |
| 'Library . . . . . . : SYSIBM Number of objects . : 65', | |
| ' ', | |
| 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.:')); | |
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