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How to cleanse and standard format phone numbers?

Execute the following SQL Server T-SQL script in SSMS Query Editor to create a phone number cleansing and formatting function; Test it on the Person.Contact table:

USE AdventureWorks;

GO

-- T-SQL user-defined function - UDF - scalar-valued function

-- SQL format phone number string to standard telephone number format

CREATE FUNCTION fnStandardPhone

               (@PhoneNumber VARCHAR(32))

RETURNS VARCHAR(32)

AS

  BEGIN

    DECLARE  @Phone CHAR(32)

    

    SET @Phone = @PhoneNumber

    

    -- cleanse phone number string

    WHILE PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%',@PhoneNumber) > 0

      SET @PhoneNumber = REPLACE(@PhoneNumber,

               SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber,PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%',@PhoneNumber),1),'')

    

    -- skip foreign phones

    IF (SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber,1,1) = '1'

         OR SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber,1,1) = '+'

         OR SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber,1,1) = '0')

       AND LEN(@PhoneNumber) > 11

      RETURN @Phone

    

    -- build US standard phone number

    SET @Phone = @PhoneNumber

    

    SET @PhoneNumber = '(' + SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber,1,3) + ') ' +

             SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber,4,3) + '-' + SUBSTRING(@PhoneNumber,7,4)

    

    IF LEN(@Phone) - 10 > 1

      SET @PhoneNumber = @PhoneNumber + ' X' + SUBSTRING(@Phone,11,LEN(@Phone) - 10)

    

    RETURN @PhoneNumber

  END

GO

 

SELECT   FullName=FirstName + ' ' + LastName,

         [Standard Phone] = dbo.fnStandardPhone(Phone),

         [Non-Standard] = Phone

FROM     Person.Contact

ORDER BY LastName,

         FirstName

GO

/*

FullName          Standard Phone    Non-Standard

Syed Abbas        (926) 555-0182    926-555-0182

Catherine Abel    (747) 555-0171    747-555-0171

Kim Abercrombie   (334) 555-0137    334-555-0137

Kim Abercrombie   (208) 555-0114    208-555-0114
.....

*/

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