Increment alphanumeric value in user function

Question

I am trying to code a user-defined function in SQL Server 2005 that will increment the integer portion of an alphanumeric value by one. For example, uf_AlphanumericIncrease ('A000299')should return "A000300". Here is what I have done so far;

ALTER FUNCTION uf_AlphaNumericIncrement
(
@ID varchar(10)
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(10) AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @RES varchar(10);
    IF SUBSTRING(@ID,LEN(@ID),1)='9'
        SET @RES=SUBSTRING(@ID,1,LEN(@ID)-2)+CAST (CAST(SUBSTRING(@ID,LEN(@ID)-1,1) AS smallint)+1 AS VARCHAR(10))+'0';
    ELSE
        SET @RES=SUBSTRING(@ID,1,LEN(@ID)-1)+CAST (CAST(SUBSTRING(@ID,LEN(@ID),1) AS smallint)+1 AS VARCHAR(10));
    RETURN @RES;
END 

But, as you can see, it only works for the last digit. I need to get it in a loop so that it can work on A002999 and so on. Any ideas?

Edit: this value may have an alpha prefix longer than one character or not at all.

Answer 1

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DECLARE @prefix varchar(20), @numberstr varchar(20), @number int, @Val varchar(40)

SELECT @Val = 'ABCD000006'
--SELECT @Val = 'A03'

SELECT @prefix = LEFT(@Val, PATINDEX ('%[0-9]%', @Val) -1)
SELECT @numberstr = SUBSTRING(@Val, PATINDEX ('%[0-9]%', @Val), 8000)
SELECT @number = CAST(@numberstr AS int) + 1
SELECT @prefix + RIGHT(REPLACE(SPACE(LEN(@numberstr)), ' ', '0') + CAST(@number AS varchar(20)), LEN(@numberstr))

Answer 2

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ALTER FUNCTION uf_AlphaNumericIncrement
(
@ID varchar(10)
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(10) AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @RES varchar(10);
    DECLARE @num int;
    DECLARE @prefix varchar(10);
    set @prefix = left(@id, patindex('%[0-9]%', @id) -1)
    set @num = cast(right(@id, len(@id) - len(@prefix)) as int) + 1
    set @res = @prefix + replicate('0', len(@id) - len(@prefix) - len(@num)) + cast(@num as varchar(10))

    RETURN @RES;
END

Answer 3

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.uf_ANinc
(
  @in varchar(10)
)
RETURNS varchar(10) AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @prefix varchar(10);
    DECLARE @res varchar(10);
    DECLARE @pad varchar(10);
    DECLARE @num int;
    DECLARE @start int;

    SET @start = PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',@in);
    SET @prefix = LEFT(@in, @start - 1 );
    SET @num = CAST(  RIGHT( @in, LEN(@in) - @start ) AS int  ) + 1
    SET @pad = REPLICATE( '0', 10 - LEN(@prefix) - CEILING(LOG(@num)/LOG(10)) );
    SET @res = @prefix + @pad + CAST( @num AS varchar);

    RETURN @res
END
GO

SELECT dbo.uf_ANinc('ABC000123');