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I’m trying to select only entries in the following format from a varchar field.
[Any number of zeros][a hyphen or not][any number of numbers]
Some samples of what I want would be…
000000000007975
000000000-58628
123421423890347
But not:
00000--18945489
00000000000012B
SELECT Field<br>
FROM table<br>
WHERE Field LIKE ???
T-SQL does not support regular expressions. You could look into the CLR to add this.
http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/clr-assembly-regex-functions-for-sql-server-by-example/