I have table in the database with a phone number column. The numbers look like this:
123456789
I want to format that to look like this:
Above users mentioned, those solutions are very basic and they won't work if the database has different phone formats like:
(123)123-4564
123-456-4564
1234567989
etc
Here is a more complex solution that will work with ANY input given:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[ufn_FormatPhone] (@PhoneNumber VARCHAR(32))
RETURNS VARCHAR(32)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Phone CHAR(32)
SET @Phone = @PhoneNumber
-- cleanse phone number string
WHILE PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', @PhoneNumber) > 0
SET @PhoneNumber = REPLACE(@PhoneNumber, SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber, PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', @PhoneNumber), 1), '')
-- skip foreign phones
IF (
SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber, 1, 1) = '1'
OR SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber, 1, 1) = '+'
OR SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber, 1, 1) = '0'
)
AND LEN(@PhoneNumber) > 11
RETURN @Phone
-- build US standard phone number
SET @Phone = @PhoneNumber
SET @PhoneNumber = '(' + SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber, 1, 3) + ') ' + SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber, 4, 3) + '-' + SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber, 7, 4)
IF LEN(@Phone) - 10 > 1
SET @PhoneNumber = @PhoneNumber + ' X' + SUBSTRING(@Phone, 11, LEN(@Phone) - 10)
RETURN @PhoneNumber
END