DECLARE @test TABLE(x VARCHAR(20)); INSERT INTO @test SELECT '+91 (876) 098 6789' UNION ALL SELECT '1-567-987-7655' UNION ALL SELECT 'FR5-5105'; declare @n char(26) = '22233344455566677778889999' ;WITH Num1 (n) AS (SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 1), Num2 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM Num1 AS X, Num1 AS Y), Num3 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM Num2 AS X, Num2 AS Y), Num4 (n) AS (SELECT 1 FROM Num3 AS X, Num3 AS Y), Nums (n) AS (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY n) FROM Num4), Cleaner AS ( SELECT x, (SELECT CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(x, n, 1) LIKE '[A-Za-z]' Then SUBSTRING(@n, (ASCII(upper(SUBSTRING(x, n, 1)))-64),1) WHEN SUBSTRING(x, n, 1) LIKE '[0-9]' THEN SUBSTRING(x, n, 1) ELSE '' END + '' FROM Nums WHERE n <= LEN(x) FOR XML PATH('')) AS x_clean FROM @test) SELECT x, x_clean FROM Cleaner; /* x x_clean +91 (876) 098 6789 918760986789 1-567-987-7655 15679877655 FR5-5105 3755105 */