Question

In one of my fields, I have data that looks like

-  Data with spaces, some other data,   .

I put the . at the end so you can see that it has double whitespace

I want to remove the – and remove any and all double (or more spaces). Leaving the result with a single white space.

Not all data in the column has a leading hyphen ( – )
Some of them are

Data with spaces, some other data
Data  with  double  spaces,  some other data  . (double space at end)
  Data with leading double space, some other data
- Some data with hyphen,  and double space
  - double space leading hyphen, some other data

These are the few variations in the DB. I was attempting to fix each one manually but it takes so long to correct an entry.

Answer 1

try this:

rtrim(ltrim(REPLACE (COLUMN_NAME, '-', ' ')))

I did not understand if you need an extra space in the end, but if you do just add +’ ‘