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atang
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Posted - 2014-06-03 : 22:32:57
Say if I have this string "ABCD test love", is there a way I can get rid of all text after "test" so that it becomes "ABCD test".

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-03 : 23:11:06
[code]declare @str varchar(100)

select @str = 'ABCD test love'
select left(@str, charindex('test', @str) + 4)[/code]


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visakh16
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52326 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-06 : 09:19:59
[code]
SELECT STUFF(ColumnName,PATINDEX('% test %',ColumnName)+6,LEN(ColumnName),'') FROM Table
[/code]

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