Pull everything up to the 3rd space in string

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Pull everything up to the 3rd space in string

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mwdallas
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Posted - 2015-03-19 : 13:04:28

I am trying to figure out how to pull only a certain character string.

orig string varies in length (Varchar 50)
ex: MID - Proposed - Prime
ex: MID - NotProposed - NotPrime

I want to keep the first 6 characters 'MID - '
as well as up to the 3rd SPACE (not including the space)

so
ex: MID - Proposed
ex: MID - NotProposed

HELP please!

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2015-03-19 : 13:54:35

Here you go:

declare @s varchar(50)

set @s = 'MID - Proposed - Prime'

select LEFT(@s, charindex(' ', @s, 7) - 1)

Tara Kizer
SQL Server MVP since 2007
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/

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