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Select query part of postcode

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SNandra
Starting Member

4 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-25 : 04:31:25

Hi

I have a set of postcodes in mtable eg

Codes
AB1 4AB
ABC1 4AB
DE23 4ff
B1 3RR
B24 3RR

I want to create a select query which just picks up the first part of the postcodes. Eg:

AB1
ABC1
DE23
B1
B24

Any ideas?

ayamas
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552 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-25 : 04:47:39

declare @str varchar(50)
set @str ='AB1 4AB'
select substring(@str,1,charindex(' ',@str))

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-25 : 05:05:02

or SELECT CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(' ',Codes) >0
THEN LEFT(Codes,CHARINDEX(' ',Codes)-1)
ELSE Codes
END

SNandra
Starting Member

4 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-25 : 05:20:03

Cheers

I went with this in the end

Select SUBSTRING(Codes, 1, CHARINDEX(' ', Codes)) as PartPostCode
FROM PostCodes

madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-25 : 06:00:05

quote:
Originally posted by SNandra

Cheers

I went with this in the end

Select SUBSTRING(Codes, 1, CHARINDEX(' ', Codes)) as PartPostCode
FROM PostCodes

or

Select PARSENAME(REPLACE(codes,' ','.'),2) as PartPostCode
FROM PostCodes

provided codes has only two parts

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

SNandra
Starting Member

4 Posts

Posted - 2008-02-25 : 06:04:08

Yes that works too.