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vasu4us
Posting Yak Master

102 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-13 : 12:33:24
iam trying to write a string function which will give me the id part of a mail id
but iam geting the string along with @ and when iam trying to remove the last char (@) iam getting error

query:
select substring(leadassignedtombemail,1,(CHARINDEX('@', leadassignedtombemail)))
from lead_details -----> Gives me id along with @


select substring(leadassignedtombemail,1,(CHARINDEX('@', leadassignedtombemail) - 1))
from lead_details ------------>gives me error "Invalid length parameter passed to the substring function."

But
select (CHARINDEX('@', leadassignedtombemail) - 1) from lead_details
works and gives me the length of id without counting @

where did i go wrong

nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-13 : 12:48:39
select substring(leadassignedtombemail,1,(CHARINDEX('@', leadassignedtombemail) - 1))
from lead_details
where leadassignedtombemail like '%@%'
or try
where leadassignedtombemail like '_%@%'


you probbaly have some without an @ sign so charindex gives 0.

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vasu4us
Posting Yak Master

102 Posts

Posted - 2006-09-13 : 15:24:44
Hay thanks man i just found the same and resolved the problem
the problem was not in the query but in the data, which i was not looking at and was beating around the query.

Thanks
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