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CHARINDEX problem

luissantos

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July 2, 2013 at 4:50 pm

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Hello comunity
I have a table name field FT.DESCAR Varchar(60) with the following content:
5695 - 0 | 7050-127 MONTEMOR O NOVO
with this Select :
Select RIGHT(FT.DESCAR,CHARINDEX('|',FT.DESCAR)-1) from FT
where ftstamp = 'jm13070255373,181882981'
the result is:
OR O NOVO
to remove blank spaces i change my select to :
select RIGHT( Ltrim(Rtrim(FT.DESCAR)),CHARINDEX('|', Ltrim(Rtrim(FT.DESCAR)))-1) from ft where ftstamp = 'jm13070255373,181882981'
the result is the same:
OR O NOVO
I don´t understand why??
someone could give me some help.
Many thanks
Luis Santos

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 1

What are you trying to do? It seems to me that you want either one of these options.

Without sample data and expected results there's hard to know.

Select LEFT(FT.DESCAR,CHARINDEX('|',FT.DESCAR)-1) from FT

where ftstamp = 'jm13070255373,181882981'

Select RIGHT(FT.DESCAR,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(FT.DESCAR))-1) from FT

where ftstamp = 'jm13070255373,181882981'

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Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 2

You're on target Luis. It's a CHARINDEX and right command usage confusion.

OP, let's say you have this:

1234|1234567890

CHARINDEX (|) will = 5.

When you RIGHT(string,5) you get 67890.

What you need to do is RIGHT( string, LEN(string) - CHARINDEX()) to get to the correct # of characters, or use REVERSE() like Luis did above.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 3

Luis Cazares (7/2/2013)
What are you trying to do? It seems to me that you want either one of these options.
Without sample data and expected results there's hard to know.
Select LEFT(FT.DESCAR,CHARINDEX('|',FT.DESCAR)-1) from FT
where ftstamp = 'jm13070255373,181882981'
Select RIGHT(FT.DESCAR,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(FT.DESCAR))-1) from FT
where ftstamp = 'jm13070255373,181882981'

Just to share a trick for these "right splits"... you don't need the expense of a REVERSE.

Select SUBSTRING(FT.DESCAR,CHARINDEX('|',FT.DESCAR)+1,8000) from FT

where ftstamp = 'jm13070255373,181882981';

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luissantos SSCertifiable Points: 7391 More actions · Answer 4

Hello comunity

First thanks for all of you for your replies.

I try this:

select substring('5695 - 0 | 7050-127 MONTEMOR O NOVO ',

charindex('|','5695 - 0 | 7050-127 MONTEMOR O NOVO ')+1 ,

len('5695 - 0 | 7050-127 MONTEMOR O NOVO ')) as [Last Name]

and sql query return the desire value:

7050-127 MONTEMOR O NOVO

Note: the value '5695 - 0 | 7050-127 MONTEMOR O NOVO ' is the content of my table field FT.DESCAR.

Best regards

Luis Santos