Need to Parse First and Last Name

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Need to Parse First and Last Name

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bconner
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Posted - 2009-12-09 : 15:04:31

I have a field called [Patient_Name] and it holds a name in the following format KOOP,SHIRLEY A (Last,First Middle). I am able to extract the last name but cannot figure out how to grab the First Name without middle initial. In the example name KOOP,SHIRLEY A I only want to grab SHIRLEY

Brian

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15586 Posts

Posted - 2009-12-09 : 15:13:47

So does Tiger


DECLARE @x varchar(256)
SET @x = 'KOOP,SHIRLEY A'
SELECT '"' + 
		SUBSTRING(@x,CHARINDEX(',',@x)+1
			,CHARINDEX(' ',@x)-CHARINDEX(',',@x)-1)
 + '"'

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TG
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6065 Posts

Posted - 2009-12-09 : 15:27:08

Speaking of Tiger...

Name parsing is tricky when you have name variations. ie:

Tiger
Woods, Tiger
Von Schtup, Gretta Marie Z

And if you have prefixes and suffixes thrown in there it gets really hard.
check this out:
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=56499&SearchTerms=parse,names

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madhivanan
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Posted - 2009-12-10 : 01:45:46

This will give you some more ideas
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2009/11/18/parsing-a-string.aspx

Madhivanan

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