Question

I need to compare two columns in a sql table. The data in one column has a leading single quote and may have leading zeros and the other column may have leading zeros. I need to trim the leading zeros off one column and the leading quote and leading zeros on the other before I do the comparison. Is this Possible?

    F.RoutingNum
    123456
    234356
    014233
    233455


    T.RoutingNum
    '123456
    '234356
    '014233
    '0233455

I tried this but it does not trim to leading zeros off the T.RoutingNum column.

CASE 
    WHEN Replace(Ltrim(Replace(F.RoutingNum, '0', ' ')), ' ', '0') 
        <> SUBSTRING(Replace(Ltrim(Replace(T.RoutingNum, '0', ' ')), ' ', '0'), 2, 20) 
        THEN 'DO not match' 
    ELSE 'match'
END

Answer 1

case
    when cast(isnull(f.routingnum, 0) as bigint) 
        <> cast(isnull(replace(t.routingnum, '''', ''), 0) as bigint)
        then 'do not match'
    else
        'match'
end