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                                         stevenandler 
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                                             Posted - 2013-12-20 : 13:02:28
                                            
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                                            | I am using SQL 2005 and I'm trying to find a T-SQL command that will allow me to retrieve a sub string based on the token. For instance, if I had a string like this:abc^defgh^ij^klmnop^qrsLet assume the token is the ^ and I want to get the string at the third token klmnop.is there a simple one line command that I can use to retrieve this data? | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     tkizer 
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                                            Posted - 2013-12-20 : 13:07:34
                                          
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                                          | You can use the PARSENAME function if your data has up to four parts.Tara KizerSQL Server MVP since 2007http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     Lamprey 
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                                     visakh16 
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                                            Posted - 2013-12-21 : 01:06:51
                                          
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                                          quote: Originally posted by stevenandler I am using SQL 2005 and I'm trying to find a T-SQL command that will allow me to retrieve a sub string based on the token. For instance, if I had a string like this:abc^defgh^ij^klmnop^qrsLet assume the token is the ^ and I want to get the string at the third token klmnop.is there a simple one line command that I can use to retrieve this data?
  seehttp://visakhm.blogspot.in/2013/05/get-nth-positioned-string-from.html------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/https://www.facebook.com/VmBlogs  | 
                                         
                                        
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