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loner2003
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 Posted - 2008-09-15 : 10:33:13
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| I have some records I'm working with where the city and state are in the same column separated by a tab. I have been exporting results to Excel and doing text to columns to get rid of the state (it shows in another column in the query already), but I was wondering if there was a way to truncate or crop after the city name was complete. Here's an example:CORPUS CHRISTI (ten spaces) TXCan anyone help? |
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
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Posted - 2008-09-15 : 10:45:09
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CHARINDEX will find the position of the TAB, if present.
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loner2003
Starting Member
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Posted - 2008-09-15 : 11:24:51
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how do I use it to trucate or crop the state out of my results? I am only interested in keeping the city name in the record.quote:
Originally posted by Peso
CHARINDEX will find the position of the TAB, if present.
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
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Posted - 2008-09-15 : 11:27:27
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SELECT Col1,LEFT(Col1, CHARINDEX(CHAR(9), Col1) - 1)FROM Table1
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truncate a record