mardi 5 juillet 2016

SQL to return field with non-numeric characters removed in MySQL

I have a MySQL table containing phone numbers that may be formatted in many different ways. For instance:

  • (999) 999-9999
  • 999-999-9999
  • 999.999.9999
  • 999 999 9999
  • +1 999 999 9999
  • 9999999999
  • 019999999999
  • etc.

The field is stored as a string. All I want to do is return the field with anything non-numeric removed. What SQL could be used to do this in MySQL? So the values above would all return either 9999999999, 19999999999, or 019999999999.

Note this is for a query that will not be run regularly, so I don't need to worry about optimization, indexing, or anything else. However, I do need to include this into a fairly complex join with several other tables. At the most basic level, I'm attempting to find duplicate records and want to group by or at least order by phone number.

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