Question

Please help me, how to filter words in SQL using a function?

I’m having a hard time if I explain it so I’m giving example:

ID       |       WebsiteName      |
-----------------------------------
1        |      www.yahoo.com     |
2        |      www.google.com    |
3        |      www.youtube.com   |

What I want is, how to get the name of the website. I want to select the record with an output like this. How to remove the ‘www.’ and ‘.com’ in the record.

ID      |      WebsiteName
--------------------------    
1       |        yahoo

thanks for the help. 😀

Answer 1

How about this?

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.StripWWWandCom (@input VARCHAR(250))
RETURNS VARCHAR(250)
AS BEGIN
    DECLARE @Work VARCHAR(250)

    SET @Work = @Input

    SET @Work = REPLACE(@Work, 'www.', '')
    SET @Work = REPLACE(@Work, '.com', '')

    RETURN @work
END

and then use:

SELECT ID, dbo.StripWWWandCom (WebsiteName)
FROM dbo.YourTable .....

Of course, this is severely limited in that it will only strip www. at the beginning and .com at the end – nothing else (so it won’t work on other host machine names like smtp.yahoo.com and other internet domains such as .org, .edu, .de and etc.)