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Remove dashes in ssn

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herschelrj

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Can some help me with a query that will remove the dashes from the ssn. The field type is text so I can retain the leading zeros.
 
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You may try Replace([ssn field], '-', '')

Hope This Helps, PH.
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I just did a find and replace on the table and it worked like a champ. Thanks for the help...
 
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