Question

I’m trying to code a user defined function under SQL Server 2005 that will increase integer part of alphanumeric value by one. For example, uf_AlphanumericIncrease ('A000299') should return ‘A000300’. Here’s what I’ve done so far;

ALTER FUNCTION uf_AlphaNumericIncrement
(
@ID varchar(10)
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(10) AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @RES varchar(10);
    IF SUBSTRING(@ID,LEN(@ID),1)='9'
        SET @RES=SUBSTRING(@ID,1,LEN(@ID)-2)+CAST (CAST(SUBSTRING(@ID,LEN(@ID)-1,1) AS smallint)+1 AS VARCHAR(10))+'0';
    ELSE
        SET @RES=SUBSTRING(@ID,1,LEN(@ID)-1)+CAST (CAST(SUBSTRING(@ID,LEN(@ID),1) AS smallint)+1 AS VARCHAR(10));
    RETURN @RES;
END 

But as you can see it only works for last digit. I need to get it under loop so it can work for A002999 and so on. Any ideas?

Edit: Given value might have alpha prefix longer than one character, or none at all.

Answer 1

Now works with any length of prefix and number part (well upto 20 each)

DECLARE @prefix varchar(20), @numberstr varchar(20), @number int, @Val varchar(40)

SELECT @Val = 'ABCD000006'
--SELECT @Val = 'A03'

SELECT @prefix = LEFT(@Val, PATINDEX ('%[0-9]%', @Val) -1)
SELECT @numberstr = SUBSTRING(@Val, PATINDEX ('%[0-9]%', @Val), 8000)
SELECT @number = CAST(@numberstr AS int) + 1
SELECT @prefix + RIGHT(REPLACE(SPACE(LEN(@numberstr)), ' ', '0') + CAST(@number AS varchar(20)), LEN(@numberstr))