Stripping whitespace from a select

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Hi All,
I have a table which contains phone numbers. I want to extract these
phone numbers in a common format, but they have not been entered the
same way. Is there any easy way of removing whitespace and brackets in
one go? The best I can come up with so far is this rather ugly one:
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SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(phone_work,"(",""),")", "" ), "
", "" ),"-","") FROM contacts WHERE phone_work!=3D"";
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Which will remove all "(", ")", "-", and spaces. Suerly there's a better
way?
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Regards,
Leigh
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Leigh Sharpe
Network Systems Engineer
Pacific Wireless
Ph +61 3 9584 8966
Mob 0408 009 502
Helpdesk 1300 300 616
email lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au
web www.pacificwireless.com.au
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