In SQL Server can you find the first number in a string?

Question

I have a varchar(50) sql server column with data like this:

RawData
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Washington 40 New Orleans 32
Detroit 27 St. Louis 23
         


        

Answer 1

my query for selecting multi-didget numbers out of a url (ignore rows without a number and rows where the number is after the '?'

select 
    URL,
    substring(URL,PATINDEX ('%[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',URL),7) as id
from data 
where 
    PATINDEX ('%[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',URL)>0 
and PATINDEX ('%[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',URL)