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scelamko
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

309 Posts

Posted - 2005-10-07 : 10:58:11

Guys

I have a column populated with the values like

S_CONTROLTYPESLOV_ID
S_COUNTGROUPLOV_HIST_IID

I am trying to use substring to give me the string between first '_' and last '_' but so far been unsuccessful

Column Result
___________________________________________________
S_CONTROLTYPESLOV_ID CONTROLTYPESLOV
S_COUNTGROUPLOV_HIST_IID COUNTGROUPLOV_HIST

Do guys have any suggestions to do this

Thanks

mwjdavidson
Aged Yak Warrior

735 Posts

Posted - 2005-10-07 : 11:08:03

Try this:


DECLARE @delim CHAR(1)
SET @delim = '_'

SELECT
	SUBSTRING(t.MyField, CHARINDEX(@delim, t.MyField) + 1, LEN(a) - (CHARINDEX(@delim, t.MyField) + CHARINDEX(@delim, REVERSE(t.MyField))))
FROM
	dbo.MyTable AS t

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