Using substring to get the first part

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Using substring to get the first part

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icw
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

378 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-02 : 04:59:10

Hi I have a text field with a value like this
'Product A :(Peter perfect)'

I want to use substring to get the first part out (i.e. 'Product A')
But i am having a bit of a mental block.
I know it's something like this
Substring(field1,1,?????)
I tried using LEN but couldn't make it work.

Any help appreciated

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-02 : 05:00:06

CHARINDEX.

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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-02 : 05:03:32

[code]SELECT LEFT(field,CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(':',field)>0 THEN CHARINDEX(':',field)-1 ELSE LEN(field) END) FROM table[/code]

icw
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

378 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-02 : 05:15:01

Much appreciated
I was also tring instr and instring before realising that they can't be used in MSSQL

thanks again

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2008-12-02 : 06:11:00

quote:
Originally posted by icw

Much appreciated
I was also tring instr and instring before realising that they can't be used in MSSQL

thanks again

They are VB functions.

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