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select part of a field string

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admoore

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I wish to select the portion of a field preceding a given character...

In this case the portion of an email address preceding the '@'.

As the length varies, I an unsure how to proceed...

TIA,

-Allen M.
 
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Found SUBSTRING_INDEX(`user`,'@',1) to do what I needed...
 
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