SELECT CASE LEN(phone)
WHEN 11
THEN LEFT(phone, 1) + STUFF(STUFF(STUFF(phone, 1, 1, ' ('), 6, 0, ') '), 11, 0, '-')
WHEN 10
THEN STUFF(STUFF(STUFF(phone, 1, 0, ' ('), 6, 0, ') '), 11, 0, '-')
WHEN 7
THEN STUFF(phone, 4, 0, '-')
ELSE 'Invalid phone'
END AS 'Formatted Phone'
FROM TABLE
If you have to sanitize your field first it gets ugly but is still possible
CASE LEN(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(phone, '.', ''), '-', ''), '(', ''), ')', ''), ' ', ''))
WHEN 11
THEN LEFT(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(phone, '.', ''), '-', ''), '(', ''), ')', ''), ' ', ''), 1) + STUFF(STUFF(STUFF(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(phone, '.', ''), '-', ''), '(', ''), ')', ''), ' ', ''), 1, 1, ' ('), 6, 0, ') '), 11, 0, '-')
WHEN 10
THEN STUFF(STUFF(STUFF(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(phone, '.', ''), '-', ''), '(', ''), ')', ''), ' ', ''), 1, 0, ' ('), 6, 0, ') '), 11, 0, '-')
WHEN 7
THEN STUFF(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(phone, '.', ''), '-', ''), '(', ''), ')', ''), ' ', ''), 4, 0, '-')
ELSE 'Invalid phone'
END AS Phone
Reference: http://www.sqlservercurry.com/2010/11/format-phone-numbers-in-sql-server.html
Originally Posted on October 13, 2014
Last Updated on October 26, 2015
Last Updated on October 26, 2015
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