Question

I”ve got a query that looks like:

SELECT LEN(REPLACE(address, ' CA', '')) FROM Tbl

I now need to do multiple replaces on a filed before calculating it’s length.

ie, I need to do something like:

SELECT LEN(REPLACE(address, ' CA', '') AND REPLACE(address, ' CA', '')) FROM Tbl

which is obviously incorrect SQL.

Is there a way to do this?

I’m using MS-SQL 2008 if it matters.

Answer 1

Yep! You just have to nest them

select
replace(
    replace(address,' CA','')
, '   CA','') as blerg
from TBl