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Matching Address Lines

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kpgraci
Yak Posting Veteran

68 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-15 : 09:51:09

I would like a query to match the following:

"521 S Cedar St" and "521 S. Cedar St."

That is, I want to ignore punctuation like period and comma.

I don't think LIKE can do this, but would something like this?

SELECT * WHERE REPLACE(REPLACE(Addr1,'.',''),','.'')=@Addr1

Assuming @Addr1 had no punctuation?

What about repeated spaces? Does SQL match "521bbCedar' and '521bCedar"?

kpg

sunitabeck
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

5155 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-15 : 10:26:02

You could perhaps do

SELECT
    * 
FROM 
    YourTable 
WHERE 
    REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(Addr1,',',''),'.',''),' ','') 
    =
    REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@Addr1,',',''),'.',''),' ','')

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-15 : 10:29:37

yep..you can use another replace() to strip off the spaces

REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(Addr1,'.',''),','.''),' '),'')

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