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Finding a character in a string

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davetek

davetek

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Oct 30, 2002
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Hi,
I have a string "ABC;DC" and I only want to see ABC. However the number of characters prefixing the ";" will change. Can someone tell me of a way do this using a view?

Many Thanks.
 
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Code: 
SELECT LEFT(col, CHARINDEX(';', col) - 1)
FROM table

If there are values that don't contain ';' then you will get an error.

--James
 
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