Removing Commas

i would greatly appreciate if someone could tell me how to remove all the commas from an address table, its causing an excel export to dislocate
i've tried the "STUFF" predicate but not sure exactly how this works and i also cant use WRITETEXT or UPDATETEXT because they both use TEXTPTR which only works with data of type text,ntext and image and the data i'm trying to update is a varchar
many thank
AdeyHi
Can you try REPLACE function.
update employee
set name = replace(name,',',' '), address=replace(address,',','')
Thanks
Hari
MCDBA
"Adey" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> i would greatly appreciate if someone could tell me how to remove all the
commas from an address table, its causing an excel export to dislocate.
> i've tried the "STUFF" predicate but not sure exactly how this works and i
also cant use WRITETEXT or UPDATETEXT because they both use TEXTPTR which
only works with data of type text,ntext and image and the data i'm trying to
update is a varchar.
> many thanks
> Adey|||just tried it... and it works
Many thank
Adey