How to strip all non-alphabetic characters from string in SQL Server?

Question

How could you remove all characters that are not alphabetic from a string?

What about non-alphanumeric?

Does this have to be a custom function or are there

Answer 1

--First create one function

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[GetNumericonly]
(@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

Now call this function like

select [dbo].[GetNumericonly]('Abhi12shek23jaiswal')

Its result like

1223