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HenryFulmer
Posting Yak Master
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Posted - 2011-07-28 : 16:46:10
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| I have a field VARCHAR(100)with Textdata in it followed by a numeric value in paranthesis.I'd like to strip out everything from the open paran on.Any advise?Thanks. |
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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak
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Posted - 2011-07-28 : 16:54:50
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| declare @str varchar(100)set @str = 'abcdef(123)'select substring(@str, 1, charindex('(', @str)-1) |
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HenryFulmer
Posting Yak Master
110 Posts |
Posted - 2011-07-28 : 17:01:25
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| great - thank you. |
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