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Mondeo
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
287 Posts |
 Posted - 2008-02-20 : 10:22:43
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| I've got a few thousand rows in table and I need to manipulate the data one of the fields.Each record starts like this <h1>Some Text</h1>I need to remove this string from the start of all records, is there a simple way of doing it, obviously you could do it in vb using substring or Regex but in pure SQL ?Thanks |
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jdaman
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
354 Posts |
Posted - 2008-02-20 : 10:43:53
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| Look up t-sql string manipulation commands LEFT, RIGHT, SUBSTRING, and REPLACE in bol. |
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
30421 Posts |
Posted - 2008-02-20 : 10:47:49
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SELECT SUBSTRING(Col1, 5, LEN(Col1) - 9)FROM Table1WHERE Col1 LIKE '<h1>%</h1>'
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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator
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Posted - 2008-02-20 : 11:06:56
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Delete all text based on a pattern