Query to get only numbers from a string

Question

suppose I have data like this:

string 1: 003Preliminary Examination Plan   
string 2: Coordination005  
string 3: Balance1000sheet

The output I expect is

string 1: 003
string 2: 005
string 3: 1000

And I want to implement it in sql. Please help. Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

Try this one -

Query:

DECLARE @temp TABLE
(
      string NVARCHAR(50)
)

INSERT INTO @temp (string)
VALUES 
    ('003Preliminary Examination Plan'),
    ('Coordination005'),
    ('Balance1000sheet')

SELECT LEFT(subsrt, PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', subsrt + 't') - 1) 
FROM (
    SELECT subsrt = SUBSTRING(string, pos, LEN(string))
    FROM (
        SELECT string, pos = PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', string)
        FROM @temp
    ) d
) t

Output:

----------
003
005
1000

Answer 2

First create this UDF

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.udf_GetNumeric
(@strAlphaNumeric VARCHAR(256))
RETURNS VARCHAR(256)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @intAlpha INT
SET @intAlpha = PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', @strAlphaNumeric)
BEGIN
WHILE @intAlpha > 0
BEGIN
SET @strAlphaNumeric = STUFF(@strAlphaNumeric, @intAlpha, 1, '' )
SET @intAlpha = PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', @strAlphaNumeric )
END
END
RETURN ISNULL(@strAlphaNumeric,0)
END
GO

Now use the function as

SELECT dbo.udf_GetNumeric(column_name) 
from table_name

SQL FIDDLE

I hope this solved your problem.

Reference

Answer 3

SELECT regexp_replace(column_name,'[^0-9]*','','g');

Answer 4

declare @puvodni nvarchar(20)
set @puvodni = N'abc1d8e8ttr987avc'

WHILE PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', @puvodni) > 0 SET @puvodni = REPLACE(@puvodni, SUBSTRING(@puvodni, PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', @puvodni), 1), '' ) 

SELECT @puvodni

Answer 5

Query:

DECLARE @temp TABLE
(
    string NVARCHAR(50)
)

INSERT INTO @temp (string)
VALUES 
    ('003Preliminary Examination Plan'),
    ('Coordination005'),
    ('Balance1000sheet')

SELECT SUBSTRING(string, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', string), PATINDEX('%[0-9][^0-9]%', string + 't') - PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', 
                    string) + 1) AS Number
FROM @temp

Answer 6

In queries you can for replace any character, that it is not a number, with nothing:

REPLACE( ISNULL( column_name, '' ), '[^0-9]', '' )