Reverse characters in string with mixed Left-to-right and Right-to-left languages using SQL?

Question

I have string values in my table which includes Hebrew characters (or any R-T-L language for this case) and English ones (or numbers).

The problem is that the English ch

Answer 1

I've never worked with Hebrew characters so I'm not sure if this will work,

However I think you can implement a function with a while loop using patindex

• you'll need a variable for holding the reversed english part @EngTemp
• a variable to hold the substring currently being processed @SubTemp
• a variable to hold the remaining text in the string that still needs to be processed @SubNext
• a variable to hold the length of the current substring @Len
• an output variable @Out

Steps:

• Take a string input, put it into @SubNext while PatIndex('%[^a-z]%', @SubNext) > 0
• substring to the pat index store in @SubTemp, also trim @SubNext to the patindex
• store the length of the @SubTemp in @Len
• if @Len > 1; set @Out = @Out + @EngTemp + @SubTemp; Set @EngTemp = '' (This step assumes the possibility that there could be cases where the english string is not the end of the line)
• if @Len = 1; set @EngTemp = @SubTemp + @EngTemp
• if @Len = 0; set @Out = @Out + @EngTemp (At this point the loop should close also)

I'm going to play with this when I have some time and post actual code, sorry if my scribbles doesn't make any sense