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wided
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Posted - 01/30/2013 :  05:24:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello

how to extract part of a text field as follows:

Field1 = '7589-05 '
or
Field1 = '10589-06 '

I would like to extract the data before (-):

7589 and 10589

visakh16
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Posted - 01/30/2013 :  05:28:10  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
LEFT(Field1,CHARINDEX('-',Field1+'-')-1)

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Edited by - visakh16 on 01/30/2013 05:28:27
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wided
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Posted - 01/30/2013 :  06:19:45  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
thanks it is ok
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